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ROBERT F. BROUSSARD 



(Late a Senator from Louisiana) 



MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 

AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 



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SEXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
January 26, 1919 



Proceedings in the House 
January 26, 1919 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in tlie Senate 5 

Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D 5 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Joseph E. Ransdcll, of Louisiana 9 

Mr. George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon 18 

Mr. John F. Shafroth, of Colorado 20 

Mr. Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan 24 

Mr. William E. Kirby, of Arkansas 27 

Mr. Miles Poindcxtcr, of Washington 30 

Mr. Willard Saulsbury , of Delaware 34 

Mr. William H. King, of Utah 36 

Mr. Edward J. Gay, of Louisiana- 45 

Proceedings in the House of Representatives 59 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 60 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Whitmell P. Martin, of Louisiana 63 

Mr. William A. Rodenberg, of Illinois 72 

Mr. Joseph W. Fordney, of Michigan 75 

Mr. Jared Y. Sanders, of Louisiana 78 

Mr. William W. Rucker, of Missouri 79 

Mr. John T. Watkins, of Louisiana 85 

Mr. Clement C. Dickinson, of Missouri 88 

Mr. H. Garland Dupre, of Louisiana 90 

Mr. James B. Aswell, of Louisiana 93 

Mr. Frank Clark, of Florida 94 

Mr. Ladislas Lazaro, of Louisiana 96 

Mr. Riley J. Wilson, of Louisiana.. 98 

Mr. Albert Estopinal, of Louisiana 101 

Mr. Otis Wingo, of Arkansas 103 



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DEATH OF HON. ROBERT F. BROUSSARD 



Proceedings in the Senate 

Saturday, April 13, 1918. 
The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
the following prayer: 

Almighty God, the comradeship of service brings us 
very close together in this tragic life of ours. To-day as 
we meet with the notice of the passing of one of the hon- 
ored Members of the Senate our hearts are saddened. We 
thank Thee for his life and for his public service. We 
bless Thee that he has lived among us, bearing in all the 
years the white flower of a stainless life. Thou hast called 
him to the reward of the great beyond. Let Thy blessing 
rest upon us as we cherish his memory and help us to emu- 
late all his virtues. 

And now, God, as we have come this day to the great- 
est crisis in our Nation's historj% and in the history of the 
world, we pray Thee to make bare Thine arm to save. For 
Christ's sake. Amen. 

Mr. Ransdell. Mr. President, it is with profound sorrow 
that I announce to the Senate the death of my late col- 
league, Senator Rroussard, who died at his home in New 
Iberia, La., at 8.30 last night, after a long and very painful 
illness. 

I shall not attempt to say anything about the late Sena- 
tor at this moment, but at a later time I shall ask the Sen- 
ate to set aside some hour at which fitting testimonials 
may be paid to the memory and public services of my 
deceased colleague. 

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MiiMORiAL Addresses : Senator Broussard 

Mr. President, I send to the desk the following resolu- 
tions and ask for their adoption. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 224) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows: 

Resolved, That tlie Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Robert F. Broussard, late a Senator from 
the State of I-ouisiana. 

Resolved, That a committee of eight Senators be appointed by 
the Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral 
of Mr. Broussard, to be held in the city of New Iberia, La. 

Resolved, Tliat the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives. 

The Vice President appointed under the second resolu- 
tion, as the committee on the part of the Senate, Mr. Rans- 
dell, Mr. Vardaman, Mr. Kirby, Mr. King, Mr. Thompson, 
Mr. Sutherland, Mr. Myers, and Mr. Shafroth. 

Mr. Ransdell. Mr. President, as a further mark of re- 
spect to the memory of the deceased Senator, I move that 
the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 12 
o'clock and 5 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
Monday, April 15, 1918, at 12 o'clock meridian. 

Monday, April 15, 1918. 
A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate resolu- 
tions on the death of Hon. Robert F. Broussard, late a 
Senator from the State of Louisiana. 

Wednesday, December 11, 1918. 
Mr. Gay. Mr. President, 1 ask unanimous consent that 
the Senate shall convene on Sunday, January 26, 1919, at 
11 o'clock a. m., to consider resolutions in commemora- 
tion of the life, character, and public services of the late 
Senator from Louisiana, Hon. Robert F. Broussard. 

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Proceedings in the Senate 



The Vice President. Is there any objection? There is 
none, and it is so ordered. 

Sunday, January 26, 1919. 

Mr. Gay. Mr. President, I offer the following resolu- 
tions, which I ask the Secretary to read, and I move their 
adoption. 

The President pro tempore. The Secretary will read 
the resolutions. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 422) were read, considered 
by unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows : 

Resolved, That the Senate expresses its profound sorrow in 
the death of Hon. Robert F. Broussard, late a Senator from the 
State of Louisiana. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the 
deceased tlie Senate, in pursuance of an order heretofore made, 
assembles to enable his associates to pay proper tribute to his 
high character and distinguished public service. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
family of the deceased. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 

Mr. President : We are assembled to-day to pay respect 
to the meniorj' of our late colleague and friend. Senator 
Broussard, who died on the banks of the beautiful Bayou 
Teche he loved so well April 12, 1918. 

Robert F. Broussard was born on the Marie Louise 
plantation near New Iberia, La., August 17, 1864, and 
spent his boyhood in the cypress swamps and on the 
broad prairies that abound in that section. The country 
was a veritable paradise of game and fish, and young 
Broussard was \er\ fond of hunting and fishing. His for- 
bears were among the French colonists of Acadia who 
were expelled from their Canadian homes by the harsh 
decree of the British ministry following the peace of 
Utrecht in 1713, and their tragic fate has been immor- 
talized by Longfellow in " Evangeline," wherein he tells 
how a part of these dispersed people, after many wander- 
ings and sufferings, found a new home in southwest 
Louisiana. Here they presers'ed intact for manj' genera- 
tions their French language, traditions, and customs, and 
it was in this atmosphere that Robert F. Broussard was 
reared. French was the universal tongue, and he grew 
to early maturitj' without having learned to speak any 
other language. 

He attended the public and private schools of his State, 
but his father, cherishing the hope that his son would 
adopt the medical profession for a career, sent him to 
Georgetown University, in the Nation's Capital, where he 
spent three years. Here a new world opened to him. He 

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Memorial Adukesses : Senator Broussard 

was a good student and rapidly acquired mastery of Eng- 
lish and a sound educational foundation. His j'outhful 
imagination was fired by tlie stirring events that were 
transpiring at that time, and lie determined, against 
strong paternal opposition, to make law his profession 
and a public life his career. 

His first public office after his return home was that of 
inspector of customs for the port of New Orleans, from 
which position he was promoted to assistant weigher and 
subsequently to expert statistician. He found time while 
attending to his duties for the Government to enter the 
College of Law of Tulane University in New Orleans, 
from which he graduated in 1889. He then removed to 
his boyhood liome at New Iberia, where he formed a law 
partnership with Judge T. Donelson Foster, brother of 
United States Senator Murphy J. Foster, under the name 
of Foster & Broussard, a firm which continued for nearly 
two decades, and was one of the strongest in southern 
Louisiana. Had Robert Broussard preferred a profes- 
sional to a political career, high honors in that field and 
large emoluments undoubtedly would have been Ills 
reward. 

Mr. Broussard always took an active interest in public 
affairs and sought to serve his fellow man. He was a 
natural politician, and his talents as a political organizer 
and adviser were in constant demand by his party. He 
served for 25 years as a member of the Democratic State 
central committee. 

When the antilottery question became acute in Louisi- 
ana in 1890, and the Democratic Party divided into dis- 
tinct wings on the issue, Robert Broussard took his first 
independent stand against the State organization. He 
created for himself a State-wide reputation as a cam- 
paigner and stump speaker. The young attorney from 
New Iberia, hitherto unknown beyond the borders of his 



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Address of Mr. Ransdeix, of Louisiana 

district, emerged from the antilottery contest one of the 
most persuasive orators and astute political leaders in 
the State. The logical result of this fight was his nomi- 
nation and election by the antilottery wing to the position 
of district attorney for the nineteenth judicial district of 
the State in the campaign of 1892. His record in office, 
his undoubted strength, and the two-term tradition united 
in 1894 to obtain for him a unanimous reelection. 

Two years later he entered the race for Congress in the 
old third district. He had a strong opponent, who had 
the support of the State organization, but Broussard re- 
ceived the nomination. He entered upon his duties in 
the House of Representatives in the Fifty-fifth Congress 
March 4, 1897, and served in that body for 18 years, being 
reelected to eight successive Congresses without opposi- 
tion, except to the Sixty-second, which came after his 
election to the Senate. This demonstrates his remarkable 
personal popularity, and is a record of which the fewest 
Members of Congress can boast. 

When the young Acadian entered Congress conditions 
in his district were such as to demand his very best study 
and attention. While the good men in Louisiana had di- 
vided on the lottery issue and aligned themselves under 
the respective banners of Foster and McEnery, another 
struggle had been going on in Washington which involved 
the very economic existence of the people of the third 
congressional district. The cultivation of sugar cane, 
which since the early thirties of the last century had been 
the principal vocation of these people, was again suffer- 
ing from a fierce storm growing out of tarifT revision. 
The McKinley tariff bill, enacted in September, 1890, had 
so far departed from American practice as to place sugar 
on the free list and give a bounty of 2 cents per pound to 
the American-grown product in order to stimulate domes- 
tic production. 



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Memorial Addresses : Senator Bkoissahd 

No State in the Union was affected by this revolutionary 
fiscal procedure so much as Louisiana and property values 
in the sugar district were shaken to the foundation. A 
situation developed that called for the exercise of all the 
legal ability and acumen of the young leader from Iberia, 
who gave Congressman Andrew Price his hearty support 
when that gentleman announced his intention to vote 
against the McKinlcy bill, notwithstanding its bounty of 
2 cents per pound to the Louisiana sugar planters. The 
bounty yielded a golden harvest while it continued, but it 
lasted only long enough to reach the Supreme Court, 
which promptly declared it unconstitutional, with result- 
ant financial chaos in the sugar sections of Louisiana. 
That condition was very slightly improved when the Dem- 
ocrats returned to power by the enactment of the Wilson 
bill in February, 1894. So heavy a burden was that meas- 
ure supposed to place upon the Louisiana industry that 
such stanch Democrats as Meyer, Davey, Price, Boatner, 
and Robertson all recorded their votes against it in the 
House. 

Before the Louisiana sugar district, which had thus be- 
come the football of tariff legislation, was compelled to 
undergo the rigors of another revision ill health had laid 
a heavy hand upon Congressman Price, who had done 
such yeoman service to preserve the industry. He was 
compelled to lay down the legislative burden; and, as the 
very existence of his people was at stake, it was agreed 
that the gravity of the situation demanded the very best 
talent the district could afford. 

Those were the days of the old-time conventions, and 
in one of the most spirited and closely contested political 
fights in the history of the State "Bob" Broussard was 
selected by a majority of one-half vote to continue the 
battle so long and brilliantly conducted by the lamented 
Andrew Price. On entering Congress he proclaimed hiin- 



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Address of Mr. Raxsdell, of Louisiana 

self a Democrat of the school of Samuel J. Randall, who 
was thrice honored by his party with the oftice of Speaker, 
notwithstanding that he was a stout advocate of protec- 
tion. In taking this stand Congressman Broussard had 
the example and counsel of Senator Samuel D. McEnery, 
affectionately known as the war horse of Louisiana Dem- 
ocracy, who voted for the Dingley tariff in 1897. And 
throughout his entire career in the House, and later in 
the Senate, " Bob " Broussard devoted everj' energy of his 
being to watching, safeguarding, and upbuilding the sugar 
industry of Louisiana and the Nation. By close scrutiny 
and research he mastered the intricate problems of the 
vexatious sugar question and became an expert on the 
subject and a tower of strength during the precarious men- 
acing periods when blows and assaults were directed 
against that great industrj'. 

Upon an occasion in the Senate similar to this Senator 
Broussard paid his final tribute to the memorj^ of the late 
Senator McEnerj-. Between these two tliere had always 
existed a warm and devoted personal friendship, perhaps 
all the more tender because of the disparity in their ages. 
Senator Broussard felt that in the counsel and experience 
of his old friend his own footsteps would be safelj' guided 
along tlie tortuous and uncertain paths of tariff legislation, 
and as the fierce storm of factional opposition broke about 
the heads of both these true sons of Louisiana, because 
each sought the same solution for this great economic 
problem, we may assume that Senator Broussard was only 
expressing what he might hope would be said of his own 
course when, in eulogizing his departed friend, he said: 

I well recall the conference held by the Louisiana delegation 
In Senator McEnery's ofTice to determine the course to be pursued 
by the delegation with respect to the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. 
The delegation favored it in some particulars and opposed it in 
others. Senator McEnery at once laid down the rule which he 
said should be our guidance: Will this bill as a whole benefit or 

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Memorial Ardkesses: Senator Broussard 

injure Louisiana? He argued pointedly that what benefited the 
people of Louisiana was paramount. One section, he said, can 
not be made to suffer unless the entire State suffered likewise. 
By these rules his conduct as a Senator was always guided, and, 
occupying that position, he has never been held not to have 
performed the duties incumbent upon him in a patriotic manner, 
nor was he ever looked upon with suspicion by his Democratic 
colleagues in the performance of his duties as he conceived them 
to be. 

Senator Broussard held that under our Constitution, so 
far as the tariff is concerned, our citizenship might be 
divided into two broad classes — those who advocate pro- 
tection and those who advocate a tariff for revenue. The 
difference between the tariff-for-revenue man and the 
protectionist, he held, was expressed in percentage; " and 
if this be true," he asked, " who is to judge when the 
tariff on a given article is a revenue tariff and when is it 
a protective tariff?" He answered this query with the 
statement that " the people of each district must decide 
for themselves, and the Representative of that district 
should voice the decision of his constituency; the people 
of each State should decide for themselves, and the Sen- 
ator should voice the opinion of his State. This was Sen- 
ator McEnery's rule and guidance, and his people ap- 
proved it by reelecting him again and again without 
opposition." When we think of Senator Broussard's own 
career can we have any doubt that in the thought he has 
here expressed is to be found the pole star by which his 
own course was guided? 

It will be chiefly because of his unending struggle for 
the preservation of the cane-sugar industry' of Louisiana 
that his memory will be preserved at the National Capital. 
Born in the heart of the sugar district and intimately 
associated with the industrj', until death placed its wither- 
ing hand upon him he was one of its leading champions. 
No cause ever had a more devoted advocate, nor could it 



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Address of Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 

wish for one more able. He knew all the intricacies of 
the involved sugar question, and his colleagues generally 
accepted his presentation as correct. 

In Januarj-, 1912, Mr. Broussard was nominated for 
the United States Senate for the term beginning March 
4, 1915. His constituents, knowing that the seal in the 
Senate would not be vacant for two years, renominated 
him for the ninth term in the House of Representatives 
in November, 1912. This is the only instance in Ameri- 
can political historj', as far as I can learn, where a man 
was elected to and served for two years in the House 
of Representatives after having been elected to the Senate. 

Senator Broussard was peculiarly well qualified to 
represent his State in the Senate. He was a man of great 
intellect, a trained legislator, a profound lawyer, and 
an able and skillful debater. In the United States Senate, 
as well as in the House of Representatives, he was 
recognized as a fearless champion of every interest of 
Louisiana. 

On January 12, 1898, Mr. Broussard married Miss Mar- 
rette Applegate, of New Orleans, a lovely and accom- 
plished woman, who survives him. They had no children. 

He was extremely fond of flowers, plants, and trees. 
He paid frequent visits to the Botanic Garden in this city, 
claiming that it rested his mind and body to look at and 
study " plants that God put on this earth for our benefit 
as well as our pleasure." On one occasion, while admir- 
ing some orchids, in company with his particular friend, 
George W. Hess, superintendent of the United States 
Botanic Garden, he placed his hands upon one of them 
and fondled it, saying, "To my mind there is nothing 
more beautiful in this world than a baby and a flower." 
He said of trees, " To love trees intelligently we must 
know them ; we must be able to call them by name when- 
ever and wherever we meet them; this is fundamental 
to any friendship." 

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Memorial Addkesses : Senatoh Brocssaiu) 

Senator Broussard indorsed heartily the sentiment 
expressed in Joyce Kilmer's exquisite poem on trees: 

I think thai I shall never see 

A poem lovely as a tree. 

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; 

A tree that looks at God all day 

And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 

A tree that may in summer wear 

A nest of robins in her hair; 

Upon whose bosom snow has lain, 

Who intimately lives with rain. 

Poems are made by fools like me, 

But only God can make a tree. 

Senator Broussard, better known as " Bob " Brous- 
sard and " Couzan Bob," had multitudes of friends. He 
had a charming personality, and affection for him was 
widespread and deep. To few men is it given to possess 
the happy faculty of making friends and holding them as 
did " Bob " Broussard. He was a magnetic orator both in 
French and English. I once heard him deliver a political 
speech in English for 30 minutes to an audience composed 
mainly of French-speaking people, and then, without 
pausing, he changed to French, amid the wild enthusiasm 
of his hearers. I did not understand the French portion 
of his address, but my attention was held by his graceful 
versatility and charm of manner. 

Although in failing health for two years prior to his un- 
timely death. Senator Broussard was cheerfid and hope- 
ful to the end, carrj'ing sunshine and good cheer wherever 
he went. He loved life and enjoyed it to the fullest. 

Louisianians were proud of Senator Broussard, loved 
him in life, and now revere his memory. His work is 
done; he is at rest; peace to his ashes. 



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Address of Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 

There is no death! The stars go down 
To rise upon some fairer shore, 

And bright in heaven's jeweled crown 
They shine forevermore. 

There is no death! The leaves may fall, 
The flowers may fade and pass away, 

They only wait through wintry hours 
The coming of the May. 

There is no death I An angel form 

Walks o'er the earth with silent tread; 

He bears our best-beloved things away. 
And then — we call them dead. 



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Address of Mr. Chamberlain, of Oregon 

Mr. President: My intimate acquaintance with the late 
Senator Broussard began when I was elected to the Sen- 
ate in 1909. I knew of him, however, through the fact of 
his copartnership with a very distinguished and very 
much-loved classmate of mine at Washington and Lee 
University. So, without having known Senator Brous- 
sard intimately, I knew from the reports that had come 
to me from his old friends and associates that, like the 
people of Louisiana, those of us who were to come into 
intimate contact and touch with him would love him. It 
did not take long to get acquainted with him, I found, and 
almost intuitively one was tempted to speak of him as he 
was lovingly spoken of amongst his friends in Louisiana, 
as " Couzan Bob," or simply as " Bob," because he at once 
removed the barrier that might ordinarily be raised be- 
tween men who meet merely as strangers. 

I served on a number of committees with him here in 
the Senate, and, as has been so ably said by his distin- 
guished colleague [Mr. Ransdcll], whatever duty he 
turned his attention to he gave it that zealous application 
and consideration which every intelligent legislator tries 
to give as the most important part of his legislative duty. 
He attended committee meetings promptly and gave to 
the work before the committees, and particularly to that 
portion of the work that affected his own State, the ut- 
most zeal, application, and effort. 

He was a typical Southern gentleman, Mr. President, 
and wore his heart upon his sleeve. I do not know any 
one of my acquaintances who so represented as did Sena- 
tor Broussard that affable, courteous, chivalrous disposi- 

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Address of Mr. Chamberlain, of Oregon 

tion which is so characteristic of the old Southern gentle- 
man. 

We shall all miss him here, Mr. President, as I know 
that his constituents and friends in Louisiana will miss 
him, and it will be a long tinfe before his place can be 
filled here, either as a faithful public servant or in the 
hearts of liis colleagues. 



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Address of Mr. Shafroth, of Colorado 

Mr. President: Before coming over to the Senate Cham- 
ber this morning I picked up a Congressional Directory 
of Januarj', 1916. I looked over the list of Senators who 
had departed from this earth since that time and I found 
that 15 Senators while serving in the Senate had died. 
A Senator not long ago told me that in the eight years of 
his service here he had counted the passing from this life 
of 53 Senators who had served with him some portion of 
the time in that period. So we may truly say that " While 
in life we are in the midst of death." 

Mr. President, I was a Member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives when Mr. Broussard began his service in that 
body. He was elected in the memorable campaign of 1896. 
That campaign was, perhaps, the most remarkable ever 
waged in the United States. It was because of the fact that 
there had been such differences of opinion concerning eco- 
nomic questions that parties were almost wiped out of 
existence. In some States the result was favorable to one 
political party by enormous majorities and in other States 
to the opposite political party. 

In my own State of Colorado, which had been a Re- 
publican State up to that time, 85 per cent of the Repub- 
licans of the State voted the Democratic ticket, giving Mr. 
Bryan a majoriy of 134,000, while upon the other hand 
New Jersey, that had been a Democratic State for many 
years, as was the case in some other States in other parts 
of the Republic, returned to Congress a solid Republican 
delegation. Peoi^le had differed very materially upon the 
money question, and there were grounds for such differ- 
ences of opinion. 

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Address of Mr. Shafrotu, of Colorado 

That was a campaign where all meetings were largely 
attended. There had been a depression in prices existing 
over the world for many years. It so happened that, ac- 
cording to statistical tables, falling prices had begun about 
the year that Germany demonetized silver, and from that 
time until 1896 there had been a continual fall in the level 
of prices. That was attributed by many, and especially by 
the Democratic Party, as announced in its platform of 
1896, to be due to the fact that the burdens of commerce 
and credit which previously had been borne by both silver 
and gold had been shifted to gold alone, thereby increas- 
ing the demand for and value of gold, which in turn in- 
creased its purchasing power and thus produced falling 
prices. 

Mr. President, I have no doubt that theory was correct. 
I am a firm believer and have always been a believer in 
the quantitative theory of money. While we may deplore 
the high prices which now exist in the United States, their 
effect in the production of misery and distress is inconse- 
quential if compared with those which would be produced 
by falling prices. 

It was in 1893 that the low level of prices was reached 
in the United States. It was then that cotton sold for 6 
cents a pound; it was then that corn sold for 10 cents a 
bushel, and in some portions of the Western States it was 
burned instead of being consumed as food, it being so 
cheap that it was thought to be more valuable for fuel 
than for food. It was then, Mr. President, that conditions 
developed which culminated in the great change in the 
Democratic Party. 

Mr. Cleveland had espoused the gold standard. There 
had resulted such a profound change in the Democratic 
Party that he, although the President of the United States, 
and made so by Democratic votes, would not support 
the candidate nominated in Chicago and the principles 



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Memorial Addresses : Senator Broussard 

announced in the platform of that party. It was through 
his influence that a new ticket was placed in the field, 
called the Palmer and Buckner ticket. That ticket gained 
very little support in the Western States; it gained some 
support in the Eastern Stales; but the man who made up 
his mind to vote in that campaign wanted his vote to 
count, and, consequently, he voted either the Democratic 
or the Republican ticket. 

Mr. President, there have been many theories as to what 
produced the upward tendency in prices after that time, 
but no one has ever answered the arguments for bimet- 
alism. It is the theory of many of us that that upward 
tendency was caused by the increased production of gold. 
My State, a silver-producing State, came to be a gold-pro- 
ducing State; a great quantity of gold was discovered in 
the Cripple Creek district, and its product of $300,000,000 
of that metal is one of the evidences of the increased gold 
supply. 

Mr. President, it was at this time that Mr. Broussard 
entered public life. He was thoroughly in sympathy with 
the Democratic Party and its principles enunciated in the 
platform in 1896. I remember very well when he first 
came to the House of Representatives. He was a very 
young man, being only 33 years of age. He was active, 
quick, and vigilant, keen of mind, and was considered one 
of the very young and promising Members of the House of 
Representatives. Of course, he was always loyal to the 
interests of his State. 

He lived in one of the richest portions of the United 
States. I do not believe there are any lands in the world 
that are superior to the lands down on the Gulf coast, and 
it is easy to understand that he felt in recent years that the 
great sugar interests of Louisiana would be benefited by 
a duty upon sugar. During the last six years he devoted a 
great deal of time and attention to presers'ing that which 



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Address of Mr. Shafroth, of Colorado 

he thought was absolutely essential to the life and to the 
growth of the great industry in his State. 

Mr. President, my acquaintance with Mr. Broussard 
ripened into warm friendship as the years passed by. I 
served in the House of Representatives with him for eight 
years, and when he came to the Senate I knew him inti- 
mately and well. He was a man of the highest honor, one 
who always could be relied upon, without any suspicion 
of corruption or improper motive in the vote that he cast. 
He has left a great name in the State of Louisiana, where 
he was recognized as one of its great leaders. The friends 
he made were legion. I feel that in his death the Senate 
has lost a very distinguished Senator and the Members of 
the Senate a very lovable companion. 



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Address of Mr. Townsend, of Michigan 

Mr. President: I deeply regret the necessity for this 
memorial occasion. It is always discomforting for me to 
contemplate death under any circumstances, and espe- 
cially that of a friend. It is a solemn mystery, and yet no 
more mysterious than is life. We are forced to speculate 
on those two phenomena, and out of the speculation are 
born theories of religion and hopes of immortality. We 
call life real; and when we see it suddenly terminate we 
wonder about the great change and philosophize about 
the unknowable. From the lime of the death of the first 
man until this hour men and women have stood mute and 
helpless in the presence of mortality. All hatred, jealousy, 
and personal animosity are subdued beside the bier; but, 
except for philosophy, the mourners can not be com- 
forted. 

The news of a friend's death comes with a shock. It 
notifies us of the end of all human association and of all 
opportunity to do for that friend the things that we would 
now like to do. It, however, has one benign result — it 
causes us to pause and indulge in thoughts of life and 
duty. 

I know that these memorial occasions in memory of 
our one-time colleagues are of no value to the departed. 
They have passed beyond the realm of censure or praise. 
Their bereaved families may be comforted by kind words 
of Senators, but the greatest good comes to those few 
who participate. It is not well that death should bring a 
permanent sadness to the friends of the deceased, but it 



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Address of Mr. Townsend, of Michigan 

is of the highest importance that men and women should 
pause in the struggle of selfish, sensual life, with all of its 
unrealities, to consider seriously the end of it all. We 
know in our thoughtful, peaceful moments that the only 
things worth while in life here are the hopes that we are 
doing something worth while in the world and the respect 
and friendship of our colleagues. The former may always 
he shrouded in douht, but we can feel and know the lat- 
ter. How miserable we all would be if it were not for our 
real friends, and yet how often do we sorely test them. 

Robert — lovingly his friends called him " Bob " — 
Broussard possessed in a marked degree the true quali- 
ties of friendship, and I am thankful that he numbered 
nie among his friends, as 1 did him among mine. He was 
a Member of the House of Representatives when I entered 
that body, and I soon thereafter became acquainted with 
him. He was a quiet, unobtrusive man, but possessed of 
the genius of industry in behalf of his constituents, and 
few Members accomplished more for his people. He 
knew the needs of his district and State and never neg- 
lected them. 

I knew little of his domestic relations, as social inter- 
course in our public life is circumscribed by accidental 
circles of limited circumference. I knew nothing about 
his life prior to my coming to Congress and I have not 
taken the pains to look up his biography. 1 simply knew 
him as the man in Congress, and that knowledge warrants 
me in saying that he was above the average of his col- 
leagues in effective accomplishments. He believed, as did 
many of his Louisiana colleagues, that the tariff was a 
local issue. He knew that a protective tariff was neces- 
sary to the maintenance of his State, and he had the cour- 
age of his convictions. He was never a trimmer, but bold 
and outspoken in his advocacy of his convictions. He was 
friendly always. His political word was as good as his 



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bond. His State and the Congress have lost in liis death a 
most valuable legislator. 

We can not understand the Providence which called 
him from great usefulness in the midst of his first term in 
the Senate, but we know that a good and wise legislator 
has gone out from among us. I sincerely regret his 
untimely death. 



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Address of Mr. Kirby, of Arkansas 

Mr. President: I feel that I should speak a few words 
on this occasion in memory of Robert F. Broussard, 
native son of Louisiana, who is departed. He long and 
faithfully represented in the council halls of the Nation 
that great State. But I am not come to talk of his 
achievements in forum and in court that brought him, the 
leader and servant of his people, from his far-off home to 
the council lialls of the Nation. I am not come to talk 
of his achievements while he stood in the Congress halls 
and represented his own people and the people of these 
United States. That can better be done, and has been 
well done, by his colleague and by his successor. 1 am 
not going to specify the different things of benefit that 
he was able to accomplish here. It is not fitting that 1 
should do so. It will suffice to saj' that he was a man 
of true nobility of soul, of fine intellect, character, and 
ability, a man of strong and true convictions, innate con- 
victions of right, a man who believed above all in liis 
countrj'. He loved his far-off home in the Southland. 
He loved the State of his birth. He loved the Nation that 
he served so well. His patriotism was as broad as the 
confines of the Nation and as lofty as its greatest pur- 
poses, and he yearned for the realization of its highest 
ideals. Such was the man. He was an honor to his dis- 
trict, to his home, to his State, and to liis Nation — to the 
old South and the new South and the great Nation. 

But of that 1 shall not speak further. I met him first 
when I came to the Senate, just when the war clouds were 
lowering and had burst across the Old World and were 
threatening this land of ours. 1 was attracted to him 
because of his charming personalitj', and because we had 

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some tastes in common; and I shall talk chiefly of another 
side, the human side, of the character of this man. 

He loved fair dealing, the open, freedom, and the light. 
He hated darkness and sham and hjTJOcrisj'. He loved 
great nature, her forests and streams, her fields and 
flowers, the firmament that shows the handiwork of God. 
He loved the finer things of life. He loved the beautiful 
and true, poetry and music, and I believe he heard the 
music of the spheres, and certainly understood the song 
of the angels, " Peace on earth, good will to men." He 
loved the grand old masters. He loved the bards sublime. 
These finer things of life appealed to and were enjoyed 
by him. He was also an ardent, a true sportsman, that 
believed in giving his quarry a fair, an even chance. He 
loved to look upon the faces of kindred spirits in the 
camp fire's glow, in the haunts of the denizens of the wild. 
His pulses thrilled and his blood leaped at the sound of 
the chase and sight of the quarry, at the sight and feel of 
the bending rod, the humming reel, the swirling waters, 
and the leaping bass. 

He was a true sportsman, and I liked him well on that 
account, my taste for recreation and diversion running 
along in that line. Personally, he was a most charming 
man. I loved the man. He inspired friendship in others, 
being himself a staunch friend. His friends to liim were 
right always, loyal and true, and no service he could ren- 
der them was ever difficult or irksome. But no more will 
we feel the hearty hand clasp, no more will we enjoy the 
genial smile of Bob Broussard. He is gone, and there was 
no more fitting end to a life, 1 think, than to that of this 
man. 

I stood at his grave side yonder in the Southland. I 
saw the people, the rich and the poor, the proud and the 
hiunble, the lowly and the great, from his town and from 
the State and all the countnside gathered there about his 



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Address of jNIr. Kirby, of Arkansas 



body in the open. I saw thcni come to pay tribute to his 
niemorj- for the last time, and I was glad to be there with 
them. It was an occasion of genuine grief and mourn- 
ing. The common people were his friends, and they 
loved him. They so regarded and affectionately spoke of 
him as "Bob" Brouss.^rd; and there in the sunshine and 
among the flowers, surrounded by a host of friends whom 
he had served loyally and well, he was laid to rest. 

He lived his life not for himself alone, and at the bal- 
ance must be set down as one who loved his fellow men. 
He loved his neighbor as himself. He was the friend of 
man. 

Died, Robert Broussard, 

And until the future dares forget the past. 

His fate and fame shall be 

An echo and a light unto eternity. 



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Address of Mr. Poindexter, of Washington 

Mr. President: It is a peculiarity of republican gov- 
ernment that men are controlled by their affections rather 
than by force. I have been very much interested in 
noting, in the addresses to which we have just listened, 
the repeated testimony of those most intimately 
acquainted with the bright and shining spirit who has 
passed from among us to that quality of Senator Brous- 
SARD which excited the affection of his associates and of 
his people. 

It is not my purpose to undertake on this occasion to 
perform the duty, however pleasant it would be, a duty 
which has already been so well performed in part by 
his eminent colleague who now occupies the chair [Mr. 
Ransdell in the chair], and no doubt will be performed 
more elaborately hereafter — to compile or to express 
the story of his achievements, to make a digest of the 
accomplishments which he was able to bestow upon the 
people whom he served as a public official; but rather 
it is by appearing here in person and saying a brief word 
as the expression in part of the sentiment which I feel 
as it were to lay upon the grave of Senator Broussard, if 
I could have the sweet privilege of doing so, one of the 
beautiful flowers which the speaker this morning said 
that he loved so well. It is not in what we say upon an 
occasion like this that we do honor to our friends, but 
it is in what we feel. 

It was mj^ privilege and good fortune to have served 
in the House of Representatives with " Bob " Broussard, 
to have been a member of active committees in the 
Senate of which he was a member, to have known him 
to some extent in a personal and social way, to have met 

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Address of Mr. Poindexter, of Washington 

his famil}'. I have as one of my friends a constituent 
in my home town who formerly came from Louisiana 
and was an old and intimate friend of the late Senator 
Broussard and who on many occasions has spoken to me 
in a feeling way of the qualities of manhood and friend- 
ship of our deceased hrother. 

Senator Broussard's interests, although particularly 
exercised in tlie care of his own people, although his 
energies were concentrated upon the service of his con- 
stituents of Louisiana and in the solution of the economic 
and the governmental prohlems that were peculiar to that 
State, were not circumscribed by the boundaries of 
Louisiana. There is a difference in public men in that 
respect. Some have but little interest or but little concern 
for anytliing in the range of congressional activity that 
does not immediately and peculiarlj' concern their own 
States. Some are inclined to consider their duties and 
obligations as limited to securing and holding the ap- 
proval of those to whose vote they owe the position which 
they occupy. Senator Broussard took a broader view 
of his functions as a Senator of the United States, and 
while he rendered adequate and more than adequate 
service to the people whom he specially represented, yet 
also he served the Nation well. 

I have been informed and instructed by mj' associations 
witli Senator Broussard as to the great international inter- 
ests and possibilities of foreign trade and commercial 
exchange — the relations which this Nation ought to occupy 
toward the Latin-American Republics, which are near 
neighbors of the State of Louisiana; and I found that he 
was a man of vision and of sense, who could appreciate 
the developments of the future from which the countrj', 
and the State of Louisiana among the rest, would profit 
in due time if we availed ourselves of our opportunities 
in that regard. I spoke of him a moment ago as a bright 



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and shining spirit. Those words came to my mind and 
to my lips on the moment as expressing what perhaps 
was his chief characteristic. He was a man who, im- 
mediately upon acquaintance with him, aroused the af- 
fections of those whose own natures were so pi'operly and 
normally adjusted as to respond to contact with merit. 
I have a picture of him in my mind, from a mere casual 
circumstance, with no particular reason why it should 
remain there other than the force of the man himself — 
of Senator Broussard delivering an address in the House 
of Representatives. I do not even remember now the 
subject of liis address, but I remember the man. There 
was a deep and lasting impression left upon me by the 
conviction which I formed at the time of his character, of 
his courage, of his pertinacity, of his intellectual bright- 
ness, of his deep interest, of his sound policy, of his sin- 
cerity. There are but few men who have that indefinable 
capacity of so fastening themselves upon the memory of 
those with whom they come in contact. 

Senator Broussard had to a pronounced degree that 
quality. If I had never seen him again, if 1 had never 
renewed my acquaintance with him under more intimate 
circumstances in the work in the Committee on Pacific 
Islands and Porto Rico, of which he was a member and 
which considered many important questions to which he 
gave the benefit of his peculiar information and deep in- 
tei'est; if I had never had the privilege of meeting him in 
a social capacity or of serving with him as a colleague 
in this Chamber, I yet would have remembered him as 
standing out distinctly among all the strange figures who 
appeared in that numerous legislative assembly — by the 
one occasion of which I have spoken. 

Mr. President, I formed from these associations a sincere 
attachment for our late colleague. I believe that those 
who fully appreciate the nature, the true functions of pub- 
lic office in this country, understand that it is not its dig- 

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Address of Mr. Poindexter, of Washington 

nity that constitutes the worth of olTice, it is not the honor 
that comes from it, it is certainly not in pecuniary re- 
wards — because they are small, small in comparison with 
those in other countries of equal power and wealth — but 
the true worth of public office is in the fact that the sub- 
ject with which we deal is man himself; that the material 
with which we work in our everyday task is our fellow 
man; that we have in our care and under the control and 
direction of the functions of this great offlce, for better or 
for worse, for good or for ill, the destinies of the human 
race. 

I have sometimes wondered as to the exact significance 
of the saying of the great Teacher of the Christian religion 
to the poor fishermen at the Sea of Galilee, when he cajled 
them around him from the sordidness of their occupation 
and said to them : " I will make you fishers of men." I 
have some slight conception of what it meant, and I have 
felt that if there is a true worth in public office there was 
something of that nature in it, that there is at least an op- 
portunity for a public man in a position of power, under 
our Government, to use that power to be a "fisher of men," 
to save men from the evils which constantly pursue them, 
to protect them, to put them in such a way that they may 
guard themselves from that principle of destruction which 
is constantly attacking the rival forces of virtue. 

Senator Broussard conceived, at least as demonstrated 
by his performance, that characteristic of the position 
which he filled. He was a fisher of men. He was bound 
to the men whom he served by the ties of liis heartstrings. 
There was no demand wliich could be made upon him for 
service, even though it called for the supreme sacrifice, 
that he was not ready to deliver. 

Mr. President, I consider it a privilege and an honor on 
this occasion to pay this brief tribute to his memory. 



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Address of Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware 

Mr. President: The friendships between men, how they 
arise, how strong they become, their extent and lasting 
qualities, are in a measure hardly capable of analysis and 
sometimes rest almost entirely in the particular person- 
ality of the individuals. 

I had not even the pleasure of a slight acquaintance 
with Senator Broussard until he had spent many useful 
years of his life in serving the people of his State and 
countrj'. When I met him first, as I believe all men were, 
I was attracted to him, and as our acquaintance ripened 
into friendship I knew I was honored by the regard of 
another man in public life who was worth while. 

Those who knew him a longer time and served with him 
before failing health had come to indicate the termination 
of his useful labors are much more capable than I of 
speaking regarding his public services. It was after he 
came into this body that there grew up between us a 
friendly intimacy which I prized, and which I know was 
agreeable to him, that 1 came to appreciate his uncommon 
ability, his high conception of public duty, and his attach- 
ment to those he liked. I do not know of any man whose 
friendship has been more pleasant and grateful, with 
whom association has given more satisfaction, and whose 
good opinion 1 cherished more than that of Bob Broussard. 

No man could be brought into association with him and 
admitted to his friendship without feeling, as I did, the 
privilege that one had in this association. No one is 
grieved more sincerely than his colleagues in this body 
who knew him well, and the better they knew him the 
more they have been affected by his death. 

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Address of Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware 

His continued illness brought every daj' from among his 
colleagues affectionate inquiries as to his condition, and 
universal regret is the manifestation here of the high re- 
gard in which he was held. 

Other men have served longer in this body, other men 
have had greater opportunities to distinguish themselves 
here in the countrj''s service than he, but no one has de- 
served and held a higher place in our affections and es- 
teem. No one has more fully lived up to the ethics which 
prevail here as to the relation of Senators than our friend 
Senator Broussard, in whose honor we have come to- 
gether to-day, and to perpetuate whose memory and high 
service these exercises are now held. 

I shall not attempt to review his eminent public service 
or to relate the many interesting episodes of his career. It 
satisfies me to record here in few words the tribute of a 
friend who loved and mourns hinu 



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Address of Mr. King, of Utah 

Mr. President: We pay tribute to-day to the memory of 
one who was respected and honored not only by the peo- 
ple of his State but by a large circle of friends and ac- 
quaintances beyond its borders. My words will come 
haltingly as I speak of one for whom I entertained not 
only a profound regard but a deep and genuine affection. 

I first met Senator Broussard when we were both Mem- 
bers of the Fifty-fifth Congress. He had won notable po- 
litical victories in his own State, and by the electorate of 
his congressional district he was commissioned to serve in 
a broader field, where his ability and genius and high 
qualities speedily secured for him a wide acquaintance 
and a national prominence. Soon after meeting him we 
became warm friends, and during the four years that I 
served in the House of Representatives it was my pleasure 
to be associated with him in a very intimate manner. He 
continued in the House for a number of terms thereafter 
and was then chosen by his State for service in this great 
legislative body. I met him frequently during the years of 
his service in the House and after he came to this Cham- 
ber, and during all of the years of our acquaintanceship 
my respect and affection for him increased. While we dif- 
fered in our views upon many subjects, nothing ever oc- 
curred to disturb the cordial and deep-seated friendship 
existing between us. 

It is somewhat difficult to describe the characteristics 
and qualities of this man, who had all of the charm and the 
chivalry which finds expression in the life and conduct of 
the true "southern gentleman." There was a courtliness 
and a frank desire to please and serve others that imme- 
diately attracted attention and won the admiration and 

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Address of Mk. King, of Utah 



respect of those with whom he came in contact. He 
always manifested the keenest interest in the welfare of 
the weak and the unfortunate. His heart went out in a 
spontaneous fashion in behalf of those, no matter how 
humble their situation, whom he believed to be wronged 
or the victims of any form of oppression or tyranny. In- 
justice in any form aroused bitter resentment and oppo- 
sition in his heart. In combating what he regarded as a 
wrong or as an injustice he was relentless and indeed im- 
placable. 

He so loved life in all of its forms ^ind the sunshine and 
the peace and the joy of friendships that controversies 
and battles were not voluntarily sought or entered upon, 
but when the occasion, as he believed, demanded that an 
issue be made, he met it with unflinching courage and 
fought to the end, asking and giving no quarter. 

Children always attracted him; he loved their smiles 
and their ways. Their very weakness and need of protec- 
tion appealed to his nature. I have known him to stop 
ragged urchins upon the street, attracted by their tears 
and by their smiles. They realized that he was their 
friend, and they evinced undisguised joy and pleasure in 
all that he said and in their association with him, whether 
brief or prolonged. 

Reference has been made by the distinguished Senator 
from Louisiana [Mr. Ransdell] to the love that Senator 
Broussard had for trees and flowers. Soon after my ac- 
quaintance with him I became aware of liis passionate 
regard for the woods, the fields, and the flowers. He 
would often take me into the country surrounding this 
city. His happiness seemed to be complete when he was 
walking through the woods and pointing out the trees 
and their varieties and characteristics and directing atten- 
tion to the birds and to the flowers and to the rich treas- 
ures which nature spread out to our view. 



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Memouiai. Adduesses : Senator Bhoissakd 

At times he seemed to be restless in the confinement 
which his congressional duties compelled. He was im- 
patient to get into the country and to escape from the con- 
ventionalities common to urban life. He derived strength, 
spiritually and intellectually, from contact with nature, 
and from association with wood, and field, and farm, and 
river, and mountain, and the varied forms of life therein. 
Contact with earth, Antaius-like, gave him strength and 
also gave him deeper sympathy with all things that have 
life. It has often been remarked that men of the broadest 
vision, of the deepest sympathy for humanity, and who 
possess the fullest comprehension of the purposes and 
mission of life come from the fields and the farms — live 
in close contact with nature. The thought has often been 
expressed that those who have glimpsed more truly the 
future of humanity and the destiny of this Nation came 
from the soil and found their chiefest joy in the fields and 
woods and in association with nature's rich creations. I 
have sometimes thought that those who live near to nature 
have a schoolmaster that teaches sincerity and leads the 
faltering footsteps into the paths of truth. It awakens 
within those who find joy and happiness in the forests and 
streams and mountains and plains an intense longing for 
knowledge as to the cause and purposes of life; and it 
develops a faith, perhaps often blind and indefinable, and 
produces a conviction, which influence their conduct, that 
life is an expression of vital and eternal forces, and that 
back of man is a power, infuiitc and immeasurable, which 
seeks man's welfare and development and the triumph 
of the ethical and spiritual over the dark and sinister 
forces of materialism which grapple with humanity and 
seek to drag men into darkness and despair. 

It has sometimes been said that the conventional, the 
artificial, and unreal take deepest root in the cities, where 
the lines of separation between rank and class are more 



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Address of Mr. King, of Utah 



distinct. However that may be, the great movements which 
our country has witnessed — movements moral or that 
made for greater political freedom — have always found 
the most earnest and devoted advocates in the agricultural 
and rural sections of the land; and from the fields and 
farms, from the villages and hamlets, whenever required, 
there have streamed mighty hosts of free Americans 
whose hearts responded to the call of country and duty, 
and whose spirits were attuned to catch the first cries for 
justice and for the defense of national honor. 

Mr. President, Senator Broussard, in his public career, 
manifested the characteristics which became strongly 
marked in his youth and were in part the product of his 
early life. Chivalrous and brave, kind and generous, 
always ready for service and sacrifice, devoted to what he 
conceived to be his duty regardless of the consequences; 
these and other characteristics equally strong and mani- 
fest accompanied him in the active and vigorous life 
which he led. 

We often hear it said that a man is brave and courage- 
ous; and courage is often spoken of as a common attribute 
of man. Speaking generally, probably this must be con- 
ceded. Nevertheless, when responsibility is placed upon 
men and when every act is watched by a thousand eyes 
and every word and deed subjected not only to examina- 
tion but often to bitter and unjust criticism and mis- 
representation, we find the test for true courage and 
bravery. Men often slirink from battling against the tide 
of public opinion. They surrender convictions in the face 
of violent opposition and bitter criticism. It is natural 
to desii'e the esteem and applause of associates. Cer- 
tainly it brings satisfaction to have the praise of friends 
as well as those who are within the wider circle in which 
we move. Senator Broussard was essentially a man who 
gave friendship and who desired friendship. He had the 



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Memorial Addressks : Senator Broissard 

natural instincts of the buoyant personality. I think the 
man who possesses the broad view of life desires friends 
and associates and the maintenance of the most friendly 
and indeed affectionate relations with all who come with- 
in the range of his activities. Such a desire is not an 
evidence of weakness, but a manifestation of the truly 
human, as well as the divine, within us. The cynic and 
the misanthrope, the person dissatisfied with life and 
filled with en\'y and liatred, is not the natural or the 
normal man. He is something of an excrescence upon 
the social organism, and too often retards and stifles 
progress and is a sullen foe of the forces of truth and_ 
righteousness. Our departed friend loved the living, 
vital, pulsing tilings around him — not only the trees and 
flowers and the birds and the voices in the field and forest, 
but he loved humanity and saw in man an unfolding of 
the purpose of a wise and beneficent Creator. Life was 
not, in his view, a failure, but a triumph; not a starless 
midnight, but tlie glorious efTulgence of a noonday sun. 
Man, in his view, was not made to mourn, but to have joy 
and to achieve and to accomplish. If there are sorrows 
and pains in man's pathway, there are likewise joy and 
happiness and compensations. The preponderating forces 
are for truth and justice, for joy and happiness, for peace 
and progress, leading humanity from the plain to the 
mountain top of sunlight and glory. 

While he recognized that there was evil and darkness 
in the world, he believed that the forces of righteousness 
and truth would dominate and in the end reign supreme. 

"When confronted with a situation calling for action 
he did not temporize or compromise. He did not balance 
the question to determine where the advantage or the 
disadvantage would lie, so far as his personal welfare 
was afTectcd. He sought to apply the standard of justice 
to private as well as to public conduct, believing that 



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Address of Mr. King, of Utah 



there was an immutable moral law by which all human 
conduct would be judged. He sought to so live that his 
conscience might be keen to respond to the great moral 
issues of life. Though, as stated, he was broad and 
tolerant, and, indeed, sympathetic toward the views of 
others, he became adamant when he thought that the 
right was assailed or an injustice to the weak was being 
done. He was not dogmatic or bigoted with respect to 
ethical or political issues, although where a moral issue 
was presented he spoke with great feeling and his nature 
was aroused until he became a powerful protagonist of 
the cause which he espoused. 

My last long visit or talk with him was on the occasion 
of the reception given to Marshal Joffre, who came as 
the representative of France to this Government a few 
months after our country had entered the war. At the 
reception I recall the animated conversations that oc- 
curred between him and Marshal Joffre and M. Jus- 
serand, the French ambassador. Senator Broussard was 
a brilliant French scholar, and the distinguished repre- 
sentatives of France were greatly delighted to meet him 
and converse in the tongue of their beloved land. After 
the reception was ended we left the building together 
and walked for some distance, and then stood for more 
than an hour talking upon many topics. It was a beauti- 
ful night, and he called attention to the stars and to the 
beauty and glorj^ of the night. He spoke of Joffre and 
of France and of the heroic struggle which was being 
made by the French people to defend their nation as well 
as the cause of civilization. He loved the French people 
and had unbounded confidence in their genius and 
greatness. He said that the French people could not be 
defeated because of the sacredness of the cause for which 
they were fighting and because they had found their soul 
and possessed a heroism which was the product of some- 
thing superhuman. 

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Memorial Addresses: Senator Broissard 

He was then not well and showed physical indisposi- 
tion. In some manner our talk took on a religious phase. 
He manifested no apprehension because of his illness, and 
indicated that he had no terror at the thought of what we 
call death, and manifested a profound faith in the immor- 
tality of the soul and in the life beyond the grave. Agnos- 
ticism was repugnant to him and the materialism of the 
hour found no abiding place in his heart. Life to him 
was not an accident. He could not view man as the mere 
product of blind evolutionary forces. He was not a 
monist, but a believer in an Omnipotent Everlasting 
Father who guides and directs and holds in His hand the 
destinies of man and nations. 

As I recall his words this night, as well as views ex- 
pressed by him upon other occasions, I have no doubt 
but what there was within his soul that trust and faith so 
simply and beautifully expressed by Cardinal Newman : 

Lead kindly light, amid encircling gloom, 

Lead Thou me onl 
The night is dark, and I am far from home. 

Lead Thou me on! 
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see the distant scene — 
One step enough for me. 

His was a faith that was perhaps not the product of 
philosophical inquiry and scientific investigation. He be- 
lieved in God and in His power and mercy without at- 
tempting an explanation of the faith and hope within him. 
He saw in the woods and in the fields and in nature's 
varied forms of life immortality, not death. The expres- 
sion of Fouche, carved upon the gates of the cemeteries of 
France in 1794, that " death is eternal sleep," was abhor- 
ent to him, and he regarded it as denied and disproven 
by the manifold forces cognized by finite man. I believe 
that he was truthful with himself, and that is the form of 
"veracity" which, as Huxley says, "is the heart of mo- 



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rality." Progress, development, growth; that is the mis- 
sion and purpose of life and the destiny of man. His 
faith in the immortality of the soul was such as that, with 
Paul, he could exclaim, " Oh, grave where is thy victory ! 
Oh, death where is thy sting! " 

He had no sympathy with the materialism of the age 
and the eflforts of men to destroy the verities of Christian- 
ity by the poisonous philosophy so prevalent in the land. 
As science reveals the conservation of energy, so he be- 
lieved in the conservation and the indestructibility of 
life. Mrs. Browning's words, which portray the attitude 
of many toward life and its great problems, accorded with 
the views of our friend who has passed to the life beyond. 
She says — 

For everywhere 
We're too materialistic — eating clay 
(Like men of the West) instead of Adam's corn 
And Noah's wine; clay by handfuls, clay by lumps, 
Until we're filled up to the throat with clay, 
And grow the grimy color of the ground 
On which we are feeding. Ay, materialist 
The age's name is. God Himself with some 
Is apprehended as the bare result 
Of what His hand materially has made. 

One of the greatest scientists and physicists of the age. 
Sir Oliver Lodge, after years of devotion to the pro- 
foundest questions which relate to humanity, affirms the 
persistence of life beyond the grave and the perpetuity 
of the living, vital, and intelligent ego within man. As I 
recall, he regards as demonstrable to the finite mind the 
proposition that life is eternal, and that man's individu- 
ality persists and continues untouched by the passing of 
the ages and indestructible by the forces controlling and 
upholding the universe. But, whether it may be demon- 
strated as a scientific proposition, it may be established 
that there is an intelligent and omniscient Power creating 



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and guiding all. The histoiy of humanity discloses that 
the human heart longs for communion with some power 
higher than that of man's, and seeks for guidance through 
the shadows of life from a source beyond this terrestrial 
sphere. And in all the ages from beyond the skies has 
come that light and spirit and faith that has illumined 
man's pathway, uplifted his soul, glorified his life, and 
opened his ears to the Voice that spake the truths for his 
guidance and salvation. 

Mr. President, this I feel was the faith of Robert F. 
Broussard. Death did not bring annihilation. Buddhism, 
with its Nirvana, which seeks through the door of life 
death and extinction, was a creed to him repellant. What 
a contrast there is between it and the Christian faith which 
teaches that through the shadow of the grave there comes 
life, everlasting, eternal life! 

And so, Mr. President, our friend is not dead; he lives 
and in a wider sphere seeks growth and development and 
service and achievement. His life was rich in service and 
his labors enriched his State and the Nation and added to 
the great reservoir of humanity's achievements. A strong, 
brave, chivalrous man has gone from our midst. His 
memory we will cherish in our hearts; his labors will live 
after him. 



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Address of Mr. Gay, of Louisiana 

Mr. President: Robert F. Broussard was bom on his 
father's plantation, in the center of the section so beauti- 
fully described by Longfellow — 

Beautiful the land with its prairies and forests and fruit trees. 
Under the feet a garden of flowers and bluest of heavens, 
Bending above, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest. 

They who have dwelt there for generations have named 
it the Eden of Louisiana. 

The people who inhabited this lovely section of Louisi- 
ana were the descendants of that hardy race who had 
carved homes from the wilderness and rigors of climate on 
the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and had by the 
fortunes of war been transferred without their consent to 
the British Government by the treaty of Utrecht. 

They refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British 
Crown, and refused to serve in the British armies against 
their beloved France. They were compelled to give up 
their homes, and thousands, after enduring untold hard- 
ships from disease and want, settled in a body in what was 
then French territorj' — Louisiana. 

Their loyalty and affection for the customs, traditions, 
and language of France have been the distinguishing char- 
acteristic of these people for more than a hundred years. 
And yet to-day no community in this broad land is more 
distinctively American in all that the word " American " 
stands for. 

Young Broussard was educated at Georgetown and 
Tulane Universities. 

He began the practice of law at New Iberia, La. 

He began his public career a few years later when the 
State was in the throes of the fiercest and bitterest contest 

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ever had before or since — the struggle to eliminate the 
Louisiana State Lottery Co. and destroy that baneful in- 
fluence on the moral and i)olitical life of the State and 
Nation. 

Tliis powerful corporation, with its immense wealth, 
was seeking a renewal for 25 years of its exclusive State 
charter. Through its great wealth, gathered from every 
hamlet in the Union, it had for years maintained a pow- 
erful lobby at the sessions of the State legislature, and 
exerted a controlling influence on legislation and on State 
and municipal elections, depending on special privileges 
to protect monopoly at the expense of the people and 
retain its servile henchmen in public places. 

The long career of this institution, reaping a rich money 
harvest from every nook and corner of the Union, its tempt- 
ing bait to provide millions for public improvements, hos- 
pitals, and education, had produced in the public mind a 
condition so aptly described by the poet Pope: 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien. 
As to be hated needs but to be seen; 
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face. 
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

The battle was not a political or party contest. It was 
a fight for civic righteousness, or government by the 
people, freed from the demoralizing influences which 
wrecked character and brought misery and crime in its 
wake. 

Money, political, and business influences were freelj' 
promised, and more than $3,000,000 were expended in 
that campaign. Success for the lottery company meant 
financial and political advancement for those who 
marched under its banner. It had a full treasury to pay 
its champions on the platform and the press. 

Its glittering promises to furnish large funds to build 
levees and prevent the frequently recurring destructive 

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overflows of tlie Mississippi, wliich means ruin to so 
many; to equip hospitals for the care of the unfortunate; 
reduce the State debt, and assist in the education of tlie 
people formed a persuasive argument with many and 
quieted the consciences of others. 

Mr. President, Robert F. Broussard was then district 
attorney of his district. He could easily have trimmed 
his course to have kept fair weather and antagonized 
neither partj' to the fight. But with the unflinching 
courage which characterized his life to the hour of his 
death, he promptly enlisted under the banner of sound 
government, which demands public morality. He ap- 
pealed to the conscience of the people against the alluring 
temptations to secure great public benefits from the earn- 
ings of an institution, clothed with the sanction of law, in 
its continued debaucherj' of the public service and its 
continued poisoning of the moral atmosphere by its insid- 
ious appeal to the gambling instincts so common to man's 
nature. 

Robert F. Broussard had no incentive to engage in this 
great contest but the call of duty to God and country. 

With clearness of vision he saw the danger to the gen- 
erations to come in the menace to the moral, social, and 
political welfare of the people and the State. He felt 
that it was a fruitful source of poverty, a seed bed of 
embezzlement, born of the frenzied desire to possess 
without the burden of toil. 

From every platform he set before the voters that sound 
government could not be had except from the regular 
taxes paid by freemen, rather than from a corrupting insti- 
tution, which, in the name of the State, enriched itself by 
the impoverishment of the many and made the State its 
pensioner. 



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The fight ended in the triumph of the cause of good 
government and forever destroyed the privilege of gam- 
bling for a consideration paid into the public treasurj-. 

He became a candidate for Congress in 1897, in a con- 
vention which was in consecutive session many daj's, and 
was finally nominated by the half of a vote. 

He succeeded the distinguished Andrew Price, who 
after several terms in Congress retired to private life, 
having served since the death of his father-in-law, Edward 
James Gay, my grandfather, whose name I am, indeed, 
proud to bear. 

Bob Broussard was returned for nine terms without 
opposition in his own party and but once by a Republican. 

He enjoyed the unique distinction of serving a full term 
in the House after his election to the Senate. By the con- 
stitutional enactment of the State his election took place 
two jears prior to the beginning of his term as a Senator. 

The people of his district insisting that they could not 
spare his services in the Halls of Congress, elected him to 
the House after his election to the Senate. 

Thoroughlj' informed in the detail of the mechanism of 
every department of the Government, the cause of every 
constituent, no matter how slight, received his persistent 
and indefatigable service. No red-tape machinery could 
bar the way to a proper adjustment. With infinite tact, 
unfailing patience, good humor, and sound judgment he 
pursued the most obdurate of departmental officials, and 
he rarely failed to move the most persistent objector. 

Having patiently and industriously examined a matter 
and satisfied himself of its justice, he knew no such word 
as " fail." 

The ardor of youth, strengthened by mature judgment, 
and knowledge gained by advancing years, rendered him 
an expert in matters of legislation as well as in the routine 
of the departments, hence he was unusually successful 



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before the departments, which learned to value his care- 
ful analysis of the matters presented and the perfect 
fairness with which he stated the question. All appreci- 
ated the never-failing energy with which he pursued the 
subject to a proper conclusion. 

Loyalty to his constituents was tlie inspiration which 
prompted every act and vote in the long service in Con- 
gress of our departed friend. 

The production of sugar cane was the prevailing indus- 
Irj' of that splendid, fertile section, the third congressional 
district of Louisiana. The welfare of its population was 
unquestionably dependent upon its success and the price 
at which it was sold. An intelligent and energetic and 
industrious people had built up this great industry in 
competition with the cheap labor and better climatic con- 
ditions of Cuba. It was the constant subject of national 
legislation, probably more so than any other product of 
field, mine, or f actorj\ An easy source of revenue, and in 
the judgment of many political economists it forms an 
ideal tax by reason of its universal use, and therefore it 
forms an equitable tax on all the people. 

Congressman Broussard had from the beginning of his 
life, in season and out, made a thorough study of sugar 
production and its cost in labor and capital. He knew 
the world's supply and what competition menaced the 
successful prosecution of this industry' in the United 
States. 

The great war just concluded shows conclusively that 
it is an essential requisite for the proper maintenance of 
the armies in the field, the toilers in the rear, and is a 
common necessity in the hovel of the poor and the palace 
of the great. 

So intimately is the welfare of the sugar industry 
blended with the prosperity of the State of Louisiana 
that her representatives in Congress for the last 40 years 
have frequently voted against their political party affilia- 

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tions on tariff bills, by reason of what appeared to them 
a hostile attitude on the part of the Democratic Party to 
this great economic interest of their State. 

Senators Eustis and Gibson voted against the Mills bill, 
a Democratic measure. 

The McKinley bill provided a bounty for sugar produc- 
tion. The sugar planters regarded the bill as hostile and 
dangerous to sugar production, and the congressional 
delegation either voted against the bill or abstained from 
voting. 

On the Wilson bill, a Democratic measure, a majority 
of the Louisiana delegation in the House voted against it. 

On the Dingley bill, a Republican tariff measure, the 
delegation divided equally in House and Senate. 

On the Payne bill, a Republican tariff bill, there was 
again an equal division of the votes in the House and Sen- 
ate delegations of the State. 

From the inception of his career in the House of Rep- 
resentatives Senator Broussard adopted as the guiding 
principle for every vote he cast a rule so well stated by 
Louisiana's " grand old man," Senator McEnery, who held 
the confidence and affection of his associates in this body, 
regardless of party affdiations. 

Speaking to the Louisiana delegation at a meeting held 
for the purpose of determining the vote of the repre- 
sentatives of the State in Congress on the Payne bill, 
Senator McEnery said: " The rule that should guide us is, 
Will this bill, as a whole, benefit or injure Louisiana? 
What benefits the people of the State should be para- 
mount." 

Senator Broussard always had this rule as his guide 
during his entire service in the House. 

Criticism by the press of the State or by party associates 
never moved him to abandon this guiding principle. 
Party caucuses in Washington failed to bind him, al- 



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though failure to obey the caucus mandate meant dis- 
loyalty to the partj' organization and brought him in di- 
rect conflict with the leaders of the Democratic Party in 
and out of Congress. With unllinching courage he stood 
alone in defiance of the caucus, accepted the humiliation 
of removal from the most powerful committee — the Ways 
and Means — on which he had earned a place by reason of 
long service coupled with exceptional ability and expert 
knowledge on tariffs. 

In a memorial address on the life and character of 
Senator S. D. McEnery, on February 26, 1911, Senator 
Broussard expressed his convictions on the duty of a rep- 
resentative of the people in Congress, defining, according 
to his conception, the duty to party and the broader duty 
to the people he represented. He said: 

Fundamentally speaking, the Democratic Party is built upon 
the idea of individual liberty in its broadest sense and scope 
within the limitations fixed by the Federal Constitution. That 
scope essentially includes the principles of self-government; that 
scope includes State sovereignty, which is the broader expression 
of local self-government, and essentially contemplates that the 
Representative, if he be a Member of the House, should receive 
his primary instructions from his constituency composing his 
district. And the Senator representing a sovereign State should 
receive primarily his instructions from the people of his State. 
* * * The Congressman — and I use the word in its true 
sense — is but the agent of the people who, or the State which, 
sends him here. The principle, so far as a Member of the House 
is concerned, is that those who elect that Member have the right 
to instruct him in regard to their interests, and the Representa- 
tive has absolutely no right to act adversely to such instructions. 
When his conscience will not permit him to carry out his instruc- 
tions, the Congressman's plain duty is to resign his office, or, 
better still, not to accept the office unless it is his purpose to 
act agreeably to the instructions of his constituency. 

This was tlie chart by which Senator Broussard steered 
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party associates from all sections of the Union, as well as 
a constant continuation of attacks by a portion of the press 
and political leaders of his own State, failed to swerve 
him one jot or tittle from these well-defined principles — 
principles that led him to consider the interests of his con- 
stituents superior to the claims of party and to vote for the 
paramount interests of his people at the peril of his own 
political decapitation. 

After his removal from the Ways and Means Committee 
of the House for refusal to permit a party caucus in Wash- 
ington to dictate his course and vote, he boldly com- 
menced his candidacy for the Senate, and faced the peo- 
ple on the platform from the Arkansas line to the Gulf, 
giving a reason for the faith that was in him with such 
logic and sincerity that he was chosen over two able and 
distinguished men of State-wide reputation, with great 
experience as campaigners. 

The primary election being ratified by the legislature in 
May for a term to begin two years later, he went before 
the people of his district and was once more, although an 
elected Senator, chosen as the Representative of his dis- 
trict, a distinction without a parallel. 

For 25 years he was a member of the Democratic State 
central committee of the State. He was an uncompromis- 
ing advocate of the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, and 
secured a portion of the State vote in the convention for 
the illustrious man who so successfully piloted our ship 
of stale through the great war. 

When Robert F. Broussard entered the United States 
Senate he was no novice to the work of legislation. He 
came from the House a seasoned veteran, who had ably 
filled important committee assignments. The 3'ears of 
study on tariffs and waterways and naval affairs and pub- 
lic lands made him an authority on these subjects. His 
continued advocacy of an intercoastal canal from the Rio 



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Grande to the East, at first considered a fantastic dream, 
drew the attention of engineers and transportation ex- 
perts, and after some preliminary surveys the project was 
found not only feasible but a sound Government invest- 
ment, which will eventually reduce the cost of transporta- 
tion of the vast products of the coast, reduce the perils of 
ocean traffic, save insurance, and develop an immense 
section of our common country. It is already one of the 
permanent waterway projects of the Nation. 

He closed his services in the House of Representatives 
on the last day of the Sixtj'-third Congress and entered 
the Senate on the first day of the Sixty-fourth Congress. 

He served as chairman of the Committee on National 
Banks and as a member of 10 other committees. It is 
needless to say that his fund of information, acquired by 
long service in the House, made him an efficient and useful 
Member. 

He was a firm supporter of all the war measures of the 
President. His health, already impaired on his entrance 
to the Senate, was rapidly undermined by the strenuous 
demands on his time, pouring in a steady stream from 
thousands of constituents. Against the advice of his 
physician, he remained at his post of duty. Every heart 
throb beating with love of country, he felt the call of 
duty to give his all, and he gave the last full measure 
of devotion with the same self-sacrifice that the noble, 
heroic dead gave on the battle fields of France. He knew 
his physical machinery was giving way, yet with that 
sublime courage which so persistently characterized his 
whole life he gave his all to his country. 

He died at home with the faithful and devoted wife, his 
loving companion of years from youth up. He was, in- 
deed, a tender and afTectionate husband. His religion was 
bound by no creed. He believed in the fatherhood of 



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God and the brotherhood of man, and delighted in serv- 
ice to the weak and those in distress. 

The elements of success in that long career, unmarred 
by a single defeat in so many contests in which his per- 
sonality and his conduct were frequently the issue, were 
the traits so lovingly described by an author as the char- 
acteristics of the Creoles of Louisiana, "A people that are 
tender-hearted and sympathetic in their social and do- 
mestic relations. The almighty dollar, that great object 
of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have 
no genuine devotees in these particular villages." These 
splendid people, who retained on the shores of the Gulf 
and the banks of the beautiful rivers and bayous of south 
Louisiana the customs and language of their ancestors 
through generations, are distinctively American. These 
people who, indifferent to the matei"ial things, lived in 
their simplicity, paying great heed to the spiritual and 
romantic, loved Robert F. Broussard with an affection 
rarely found in all this earth. He was the one trusted 
adviser and confidential friend to whom they could bring 
their business and family troubles and find a ready sym- 
pathizer and able counselor. He possessed a rare percep- 
tion of human character with an iron memory which 
never lost a face or place or an event once seen or known. 
No man could overreach him, excepting only those to 
whom he gave his heart. 

The affection of these people for their distinguished 
fellow citizen became expressed in their familiar and 
endearing term " Couzan Bob." 

An illustration of the confidence in his power and influ- 
ence is well told by an occurrence during his senatorial 
campaign. In the same primary there was a strenuous 
campaign for the nomination for governor. One of these 
eloquent gentlemen addressed a large audience in south 
Louisiana. At the close he was warmly congratulated by 



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one of his hearers, who had been deeply impressed. 
" Well, then," said the speaker, " I can count on your vote 
for governor?" "Oh, no, no, sir; me for ' Bob ' Broussard — 
' Couzan Bob.' " " But," said the candidate, " he is not run- 
ning for governor; he is running for the Senate and I am 
running for governor." " Well," was the reply, " me don't 
care about that ; you be for ' Couzan Bob ' and he 'p'int you 
governor." 

He held the hearts of his people with unbounded affec- 
tion. His campaign centered around no issue save the 
personal success of Robert F. Broussard. In a district so 
distinctively Creole material interests could never over- 
come the spiritual and romantic friendships of the every- 
day masses. 

The relation between Robert F. Broussard and his con- 
stituents is, however, best described by our illustrious 
President, who has with remarkable clearness in words 
expressed the human trait of friendship when he said at 
Manchester, England — 

Friendship is not a mere sentiment. It is based on a principle; 
upon a principle that leads a man to give more than he demands. 
It is based not merely upon affection, but upon common service. 
The man is not your friend who is not willing to serve you, and 
you are not his friend unless you are willing to serve him. And 
out of that impulse of common interest and common desire arises 
that noble feeling which we consecrate as friendship. Friend- 
ship depends not on fancy, imagination, or sentiment, but upon 
character. Real friendship is abiding; like charity, it sufferelh 
long; loyal in ill report, and the brightest jewel of happy days. 
It is the highest, truest love. Its heights are serene; its valleys 
cloudless. It requires a capacity for faithful affection, a clear 
discernment, and a beautiful disinterestedness. Fragments of 
friendship are precious, but a whole, real friend is a man's 
greatest blessing. Faith with loyalty and courage brings one 
close to the kingdom of heaven. 

The soul of Robert F. Broussard was filled to the utmost 
with this precious quality. 



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When the luncral services were held under the sunny 
skies and majestic live oaks in front of the courthouse at 
New Iberia, the eloquent tributes by Congressman Roden- 
berg, of Illinois, and Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi, 
found receptive hearers in the thousands of tear-dimmed 
eyes and aching hearts of the vast multitude who laid 
aside the business of the day to pay a last sad tribute to the 
loved leader and friend of the whole people — the true 
type of the Louisiana Creole, who embodied the lovable 
traits of that people so noted for its hospitality, real 
friendship, and splendid citizenship. 

He died poor in purse but rich in noble deeds and great 
service to the State and the Republic. 

His name will share the common fate which comes to 
all, regardless of exalted stations occupied or wealth pos- 
sessed; but the inspiration to the youth of the State of that 
long life of service, of unselfish pati'iotism. and heroic sac- 
rifice to duty in the hour of his country's peril will bear 
fruit in a higher and nobler citizenship which will be con- 
secrated to the perpetuity of a Government that will stand 
for justice and civic righteousness for all the peoples of 
the earth. 

In conclusion, Mr. President, I want to say that these 
same faithful people who so loved and admired Robert F. 
Broussard have arranged to see that his virtues receive 
fitting commemoration by the erection in his home city 
of a monument or other suitable memorial, and from the 
prospectus setting forth the purpose of this memorial 
association I wish to read the beautiful tribute paid our 
departed friend at the time of his death by one of his 
Louisiana friends and admirers: 

The career of Robert F. Broussard must impress his people 
with the inspiration that talent and character, unaided by for- 
tune, may bring place, power, and reputation. It must stir in 
them a solemn pride that a long tide of power and repute may 
come to an honest man and leave him whole-hearted and pure 



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minded, unscorred by temptation to yield the right for victory 
or to stoop low for gain. 

As a lawyer, as district attorney, Congressman, and Senator, 
" Bob " Broussard made multitudes of friends. He was entitled to 
them, for he was loyal and generous. AtTection for him was wide- 
spread and deep, both in Louisiana and at Washington, and ex- 
tended to many of those with whom he contended. He had that 
faculty of winning and captivating men which belongs to the 
warm-hearted. His passing will bring a tear to many an eye 
in Louisiana, and sadness to many hearts more. 

Magnetic in personality and a natural leader, Broussard estab- 
lished himself as political chieftain of the third congressional 
district. By the force of those qualities and by the practical 
value of his services in Congress, particularly to the sugar in- 
terests of the State, during the many years he was there, he so 
won the district that opposition to him was never considered. 

He never " fell into line " for old abuses, even though those 
who profited by them might be in position to give him trouble 
in his campaign. He held aloof from combinations of politics, 
and upon all specific State issues he stood for cleaner and better 
conditions in life and politics. 

He refused to profit by oppression, or to submit to it. Upon 
one occasion, in his campaigning, he encountered what he took 
to be underhanded tactics in his adversaries. He made a speech, 
at one of his meetings in the third district, denouncing these 
tactics. It was a genuine outburst of oratory, grand in its fire 
and patriotism, somber and powerful in its defiance, and superb 
in its declamation. It was in French, and we doubt if any Mira- 
beau or Vergniaud ever poured forth a more livid flood of indig- 
nation and passion. 

Yet the chief characteristic of this dead Senator was lovable- 
ness. He was sunny, even tempered, just, patient, kind, unselfish, 
and generous. 

Peace to your ashes. Bob Broussard. " There has been frank- 
incense and myrrh in thy life which will not be lost now that 
thou art ground in that mortar, wherein God's will is the pestle, 
which men call eternity." 



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Mr. Frelinghuysen. Mr. President, as a further mark of 
respect to the memory of the deceased Senator I move 
that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 
o'clock and 10 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
to-morrow, Monday, January 27, 1919, at 12 o'clock 
meridian. 

Monday, January 27, 1919. 
A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate reso- 
lutions on the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
Robert F. Broussard, late a Senator from the State of 
Louisiana. 



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Proceedings in the House of Representatives 

Saturday, April 13, 1918. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the 
following resolutions: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Robert F. Broussard, late a Senator from the 
State of Louisiana. 

rtesolved, That a committee of eight Senators be appointed by 
tlie Vice President to talic order for superintending the funeral 
of Mr. Broussard, to be held in the city of New Iberia, La. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

Mr. Martin. Mr. Speaker, I send the following resolu- 
tions to the Clerk's desk and move their adoption. 
The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 
The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Robert V. Brovss.\rd, a Senator of the United 
States from the State of Louisiana. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That a committee of 11 Members be appointed on the 
part of the House to join the committee appointed on the part 
of the Senate to attend the funeral. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
The Speaker. The Clerk will announce the committee on 
the part of tlie House to attend the funeral. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

Mr. Watkins, Mr. Estopinal, Mr. Dupr6, Mr. Lazaro, Mr. Aswell, 
Mr. Wilson of Louisiana, Mr. Sanders of Louisiana, Mr. Martin, 
Mr. Rodenberg, Mr. Langley, and Mr. Rucker. 

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The Speaker. The Clerk will report the final resolution. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the House do now 
adjourn. 

The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
tion. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

Accordingly (at 4 o'clock and 7 minutes p. m.) the 
House adjourned until Monday, April 15, 1918, at 12 
o'clock noon. 

Monday, December 0, 1018. 

Mr. Martin. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
Sunday, January 26, 1919, be set aside by the House for the 
purpose of paying tribute to the life, character, and public 
services of the late Senator R. F. Broussard, of Louisiana. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Louisi- 
ana asks unanimous consent that Sunday, January 26, 
1919, be set aside for eulogies on the late Senator Brous- 
sard, of Louisiana. Is there objection? [After a pause.] 
The Chair hears none. 

Saturday, January 25, 1919. 
The Speaker. The Chair designates Judge Watkins, of 
Louisiana, to preside to-morrow. 

Sunday, January 26, 1919. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
order by Mr. Watkins as Speaker pro tempore. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

We bless Thee, our Father in heaven, for the men who 
think deeply, act nobly, and accomplish deeds for the pub- 
lic weal, men who fix their thoughts on the eternal values 

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Proceedings in the House. 



of life and leave behind them paths which others may 
follow with impunity. 

Such were the men whose accomplishments and deeds 
we are here to record. They have gone, but their works 
live. 

Give us the intelligence, the courage, and grace to do 
the work Thou hast given us to do, that we may pass 
serenely on to the larger life in the realms beyond. 

Bless, we pray Thee, their colleagues, friends, and those 
who are nearest and dearest to them in life with the 
blessed hope of the life eternal. 

We are startled and our hearts are bowed down by the 
sudden and unexpected departure of another Member of 
this House. Comfort us, we beseech Thee, and all who 
knew him, in Thine own way. 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 

Footprints that perhaps another, 
Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 
Seeing, shall take heart again. 

Let us, then, be up and doing. 

With a heart for any fate. 
Still achieving, still pursuing. 

Learn to labor and to wait. 

And everlasting praise be Thine through Him who 
taught us the way and the truth and the life. Amen. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will read the 
special order for to-day. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

On motion of Mr. Martin, by unanimous consent. 
Ordered, That Sunday, January 26, 1919, be set apart for ad- 
dresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
Robert F. Broussard, late a Senator from the State of Louisiana. 



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Memoiu.vl Ai)I)Hi:ssi;s : Sknatok Broussard 

Mr. Martin. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
tion. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Lou- 
isiana offers a resolution, which the Clerk will report. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
Robert F. Broussard, late a Senator of the United States from the 
State of Louisiana. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of tlie deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, 
shall stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The question is on the adop- 
tion of the resolution. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

Mr. Martin. Mr. Speaker, several Memhers desired to 
address the House to-day upon the life and character of 
Senator Broussard, but are unavoidably absent. I there- 
fore ask unanimous consent that all Members be per- 
mitted to extend their remarks in the Record. 

The Speaker pro tempore. Without objection, it will be 
so ordered. 

There was no objection. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Martin, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: I enjoyed the privilege of being a close 
intimate friend of the late Senator Robert F. Broussard, 
a friendship that existed from the time that he first entered 
public and political life. 

I met him first when as a recent graduate in law he 
followed the leadership of the late Gov. F. T. NichoUs, and 
side by side with our present Chief Justice E. D. White 
and ex-Senators Murphy J. Foster and Donelson Caffeiy 
he stumped the State in the great antilotterj' campaign 
in a successful effort to rid the State of an institution that 
had for many years exerted a most corrupting influence 
in State politics. 

Senator Robert F. Broussard was born August 17, 1864, 
on his father's plantation at Loreauville, near New Iberia, 
La. 

As a boy he attended the public and private schools of 
his home parish until he attained the age of 15 years, 
when he entered Georgetown University, at Washington, 
D. C., where he remained for three years. 

In 1885 he was appointed inspector of customs at New 
Orleans, from which position he resigned after taking the 
civil-service examination and qualifying as assistant 
weiglier and afterwards as expert statistician. 

While working for the Government in the city of New 
Orleans he found time to attend the law course at Tulane 
Universitj', from which institution he received the degree 
of bachelor of laws in 1889. Returning to his home in 
New Iberia, he formed a law partnership with T. Donel- 



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Memorial Addresses: Senator Broussard 

son Foster, a brother of ex-Senator Murphy J. Foster, 
under the firm name of Foster & Broussard. 

From his boyhood he took a great interest in public 
affairs, both State and national, and it was but natural, 
therefore, that his political activity should be coincident 
with his entrance into the practice of his chosen pro- 
fession. 

He was made a member of the parish Democratic exec- 
utive committee, and soon afterwards was elected as a 
member of the Democratic congressional committee and 
Democratic State central executive committee, and re- 
mained a member of the last-named committee for more 
than 25 years. 

When in 1890 the Democratic Party in the State of 
Louisiana was torn asunder on the antilotterj^ question 
and the burning issue was whether or not the charter of 
this institution should be renewed by the State, Mr. Brous- 
sard joined the antilottcry forces, and in this memorable 
campaign, which at times threatened bloodshed, he 
showed himself to be a fearless, aggressive, and eloquent 
speaker, and from then on his political advancement was 
most i-apid. 

In 1892 he became a candidate for district attorney for 
his judicial district, and though he was bitterly fought by 
the prolottery wing of the Democratic Party, which con- 
trolled the parochial organization, he still won out by a 
small majority, being the only antilotten,' candidate to 
carry the district in this election. With such consummate 
ability did he fill this office that he was subsequently re- 
elected without opposition. 

In 1896 the Hon. Andrew Price, who had most ably 
represented the third district in Congress for many years, 
withdrew from public life and declared that he would 
not stand for reelection. • 

The struggle that followed for the Democratic nomina- 
tion, though friendly, was both sharp and spectacular. 

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Address of Mr. Martin, of Louisiana 

Judge A. C. Allen, a well-known and able jurist, of St. 
Maiy Parish, contested for the nomination with Senator 
Broussard, then district attorney. In those days nomi- 
nations were made by conventions, and in the selection 
of delegates for the convention there was a contest in 
ever}' parish in the district. 

When the convention assembled at Morgan City the 
result was still in doubt. The instructed delegates were 
evenly divided between the two candidates, and it re- 
mained for the parish of Terrebonne, which, with 18 
delegates, was entitled to 9 votes, to settle the issue. 

Balloting was delayed for many hours in the effort 
made by both contending factions to capture the organi- 
zation of the convention, but this did not result in an 
advantage to either candidate. 

The roll call began in breathless silence, with all eyes 
centered on the parish of Terrebonne, whose 18 unin- 
structed delegates were entitled to one-half vote each. 
It was generally known how all of these delegates would 
vote, with the exception of one man, and upon his half 
vote depended the final outcome of this most exciting 
contest. 

This man was John R. Grinage, who, when his name 
was called, rose in his seat and said: "Gentlemen of the 
convention, Tennessee has her ' Bob Taj'lor,' New Orleans 
has its ' Bob Davy,' and I believe the third district should 
have its ' Bon Broussard.' I cast my vote for Bob Brous- 
sard." 

This brought this remarkable contest to a close, and 
Broussard's nomination was thereupon made unanimous, 
and he became the Democratic nominee from the third 
district. 

But his troubles were not yet over. The sentiment in 
the third district was strongly for protection, and the 
Republicans placed in nomination Judge Taylor Beattie, 



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Memorial Adduksses : Si-.nator Broissard 

of Lafourche, a most able and well-known jurist and 
statesman, whose splendid record as a Confederate sol- 
dier and as district judge made him a most formidable 
opponent. 

Both candidates favored protection and both were 
most forcible speakers, but Broussard had the advantage 
over his opponent in that he spoke French as eloquently 
as he did English, and in a district where French was 
the mother tongue of a large majoritj' of the voters this 
advantage was used with most telling effect. 

Broussard's majority in this election was 2,833 votes, 
the smallest majority he ever received in his contests 
for Congress. 

He served in the Fifty-fifth to the Sixty-third Congresses, 
covering a period of 18 years, and so well and faithfully 
did he serve his constituents that he was opposed in but 
three of the nine consecutive times that he ran for Con- 
gress. 

In 1912 Congressman Broussard announced himself as 
a candidate for the Senate against the Hon. J. Y. Sanders, 
now a Member of this Congress, and who was then gover- 
nor of the State of Louisiana. Gov. Sanders had been 
elected by the legislature to the Senate in 1910 to fdl the 
vacancy caused by the death of Senator McEncry, but 
having declined to resign the governorship in order 
to take his seat in the Senate the legislature thereupon 
elected the Hon. John R. Thornton to fill the unexpired 
term of Senator McEncry. 

Congressman Arsenc Pujo, who had served the seventii 
district of Louisiana witli great ability for many years, 
also entered the senatorial contest. It was conceded from 
the outset that the race was between Sanders and Brous- 
sard, and it was thought that the candidacy of Pujo would 
weaken Broussard, as Gov. Sanders was the organization 
candidate. This three-cornered contest for the Demo- 



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Address of Mr. Martin, of Louisiana 

cratic nomination was one of the most exciting in the 
political history of the State, as both Broussard and San- 
ders were able and aggressive campaigners, and both 
were extremelj' popular. 

Broussard, however, developed remarkable and unex- 
pected strength in the city of New Orleans, which was 
thought to be the organization stronghold, and when the 
vote was counted it was found that Broussard had such a 
substantial plurality over his two opponents that Gov. 
Sanders declined to run in a second primarj', and Con- 
gressman Broussard was thereupon declared the nominee. 

While "Senator Broussard was elected to the Senate in 
1912, yet as he was not to take his seat until March 4, 1915, 
it appeared that he would have to retire from public life 
for two years. 

But his friends and constituents would not consent to 
dispense with his services and insisted upon his retaining 
his seat in Congress until he entered upon his term of 
service in the Senate. While he met with some opposi- 
tion, he was nevertheless nominated by a large majority 
and elected for his ninth term in the lower House, where 
he served until he was sworn in as United States Senator. 

Senator Broussard's success in Congress was due to the 
fact that he was always vigilant and zealously guarded 
the interests of his constituents. He seldom addressed 
the House, but when he did he always commanded atten- 
tion, as he spoke eloquently, forcibly, and to the point. 
He was a bold and aggressive debater, and he never hesi- 
tated to assert his views plainly and unequivocally, nor 
did he hesitate to fearlessly challenge that which he did 
not approve. 

As the Representative of the great sugar-producing dis- 
trict of the State of Louisiana he made a close study of 
the sugar industrj% especially as to the necessity for its 
protection against foreign competition, and it was gener- 



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Mkmoiuai. Addhkssf.s: Senator Broissari) 

ally conceded in both branches of Congress that he was 
an authority on any question pertaining to sugar. 

That his intimate knowledge of this industry' and ag- 
gressive fight in its behalf when it was being assailed by 
free-trade advocates was an important factor in saving 
the sugar industry in Louisiana from destruction is ad- 
mitted by everyone familiar with the facts. 

He was severely criticized, both at home and at the Na- 
tion's Capital, when he accepted an appointment on the 
Ways and Means Committee at the hands of Mr. Cannon, 
who was then the Republican Speaker of the House of 
Representatives. 

But this appointment enabled him to render signal serv- 
ice to tlie sugar, rice, and lumber industries during the 
framing of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill under the adminis- 
tration of President Taft, and that his action met with the 
approval of the majority of the people of Louisiana was 
shown by the fact that he was subsequently elected to the 
United States Senate, even though he was opposed by two 
popular and strong contenders. 

He conceived it to be his duty to faithfully reflect the 
views of his constituents and to sustain the policies to 
which they stood committed. Adverse criticism never for 
one moment swerved him from this course, and an ap- 
preciative and admiring constituency not only indorsed 
this policy but they did not rest satisfied until they had 
elevated him to the highest oflice within their gift. 

Senator Broussard's activities in Congress were not. 
however, confined to tarifl" issues. He was most vigilant 
and watchful in i)ehalf of the rivers and navigable waters 
of Louisiana, and through his efforts many of our natural 
streams were improved and made navigable, and the 
great Atchafalaya Harbor at Morgan City was recognized 
by this Government as a wortliy project, and financial aid 
is now annually extended in deepening and improving 
that harbor. 

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Address of Mr. Martin, of Louisiana 

It was Senator Broussard who was among the first to 
grasp the great advantages that would accrue to Louisi- 
ana bj' the construction of an intercoastal canal from the 
Rio Grande to the Mississippi River. He made repeated 
trips with the United States engineers over the proposed 
route of this canal, and so impressed them with the great 
relief that this w^ould give in the way of transportation 
that upon the recommendation of the engineers the proj- 
ect was adopted, and this canal, which will do so much 
for the development of south Louisiana, is now in 
course of construction. 

When Senator Broissard was sworn in on March 4, 
1915, the Democratic Party was in control of the Senate, 
and th*e recognition which the leaders gave him was 
indicative of the reputation he had gained in 18 years' 
service in the House. He was made chairman of the Com- 
mittee on National Banks and was a member of the Com- 
mittees on the Census, Claims, Library, Manufactures, 
Naval Affairs, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Post Offices 
and Post Roads, Public Buildings and Grounds, and Rules. 

While Senator Broissard served but two and one-half 
years in the upper House, j'et in this time he established 
for himself the same reputation for ability, efficiency, and 
brilliancy which he had established in the lower House. 
His duties in the Senate were both numerous and exact- 
ing, but they were discharged with such fidelity, and the 
results obtained were so satisfying to the people and great 
interests concerned, that it was generally conceded that 
had he lived he would have been returned to the Senate 
without opposition. 

Mr. Speaker, I have thus far spoken of the life and 
public services of Senator Broussard, but I can not close 
these remarks without paying tribute to the personal 
character of one who, for more than 20 years, was my 
close personal friend. 



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Mkmohiai, Addresses: Senator Brofssard 

Constant association and contact with him not only in- 
spired admiration of his ability, but no man could be 
much thrown with Bob Broussard without soon learning 
to love him. It was never my privilege to know a man 
with a more even temper and with more personal mag- 
netism. There was a simplicity in his manner that at- 
tracted everyone with whom he became acquainted, and 
to know him was to remain his friend and admirer. 

He had few, if any, enemies. He loved his fellow men. 
His heart bubbled over with kindness and generosity. 

In his political career he had many sharp and bitter 
contests, and yet when the smoke of the battle had lifted 
it was always found that Bob Broussard had emerged 
from each struggle stronger and more poj)ular than when 
he entered it. 

He was a man of intense convictions, and he had the 
courage to express them, but he fought so fairly, so 
frankly, and so openly that no one even questioned his 
sincerity, and he came out of his political contests with 
the admiration and respect of those who had fought him 
most bitterly. 

He was from the people and he always continued to be 
one of them. He gave to his humblest constituents the 
same consideration and attention that he gave the most 
powerful. He considered himself the servant of all the 
people, regardless of their station or condition. 

The Broussard family is one of the largest in southwest 
Louisiana, and when Senator Bkolssard was first elected 
to Congress his numerous kinsmen began to call him 
" Couzan Bob," and this name gradually grew in popular 
favor until ho was called by this name from one end of 
the State to the other. 

A Creole himself, " Couzan Bob " was the idol of the 
Creoles, who constitute most of the population of the 
third Louisiana district, and he was most deserving of 



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Address of Mr. Martin, of Loiisiana 

this popularity, as he was always accessible and always 
faithful to the interests which they so repeatedly com- 
mitted to his trust. 

Senator Broussard had no children, and his affections 
were centered upon his wife, Miss Manette Applegate, and 
she it was who through his months of illness and suffer- 
ing was his constant companion and gave him the love, 
care, and attention that not only prolonged his life but 
made his last days cheerful and comfortable. 

When death was near at hand. Senator Broussard, not- 
withstanding the orders of his physician, refused to deny 
himself to his friends. So long as he was conscious he in- 
sisted that they be admitted to his chamber, and as long as 
he had the strength his hand was always extended in 
cheerful and friendly greeting. 

Mr. Speaker, Senator Broussard possessed many splen- 
did and beautiful traits of character, but if I were asked 
to select the one which was most to be admired I would 
unhesitatingly say his devotion and loyalty to his friends. 

I can never forget that even when death was staring him 
in the face he made a special trip to Washington for no 
other purpose save that of joining with liis colleagues 
from Louisiana in the doing of a generous act which he 
felt would redound to my interest and advantage. 

His kindness, his achievements, and his triumphs will 
always be a precious memory to those who loved him, 
and 1 count it as a priceless heritage to have had the privi- 
lege of enjoying his friendship. 



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Address of Mr. Rodenberg, of Illinois 

Mr. Speaker: The one dominant, outstanding trait in the 
sterling character of Robert F. Broussard was his uncom- 
promising loyalty to conviction. This was the very genesis 
of his political creed. With courage born of the highest 
conception of duty, he was as true and steadfast to his 
ideals as is the needle to the pole. With full confidence in 
his own rectitude of purpose, he valiantly championed 
that which he believed to be right without hope of praise 
or fear of criticism. His fine spirit rebelled at the very 
thought of sacrificing conviction for popularity. 

" Bob " Broussard never deserted a friend or abandoned 
a principle. He knew naught of expediency and he did 
not care to know. He was incapable of deception, and all 
the world recognized in him a brave and manly man who, 
in victory and in defeat, stood " four square to all the 
winds that blow." 

It is now 20 years since I entered Congress, and within 
a few days after becoming a Member of this body it was 
my good fortune to make the acquaintance of our de- 
parted friend. Instinctively attracted by a personality 
that radiated sincerity and good fellowship, I soon formed 
an attachment for him that ripened into the warmest 
friendship of my entire congi'essional career. There is no 
man, living or dead, for whom I entertained a more 
genuine affection that I did for " Bob " Broussard. To- 
day, as I recall that close intimacy of two full decades, un- 
marred by a single unpleasant incident, I feel myself 
again under the spell of that genial, friendly smile. Again 
I feel the hearty, sincere handclasp; again I hear the 
pleasant, cheerj' words of greeting. Methinks I see him 

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Address of Mr. Rodenuerg, of Illinois 

now, erect, courtly, chivalrous, unaffected — one of God's 
noblemen. 

Mr. Speaker, it is not given to mortal man to compre- 
hend the mystery of life and death. We can not quite 
understand a dispensation that removes from the ac- 
tivities of life one who was in the very prime of vigorous 
manhood and at the verj' zenith of his intellectual powers, 
with years of splendid usefulness still stretching out be- 
fore him. With a faith that has its foundation in our be- 
lief in the immortality of the soul, we bow to the Divine 
will and accept the decree. It is this sublime and sustain- 
ing faith, a faith that rises " triumphant o'er our fears," 
that dissipates the mists of doubt and gloom, and in this 
solemn hour unfolds to our enraptured gaze the glories 
of the eternal morn. For him the mystery has been solved 
and the future stands revealed. " After life's fitful fever 
he sleeps well." 

Knowing Bob Broussard as I knew him, I know that 
death had no terrors for him. I know that he approached 
the end calmly, unflinchingly, majestically. He lived and 
died — a gentleman. Great in life, grand in death, now 
glorious in memorj'! For 18 years he occupied a seat in 
this Chamber, and for more than two years he was a Mem- 
ber of the Senate of the United States. During all of that 
time he served his constituency with an intelligent zeal 
and fidelity equaled by few and surpassed by none. Broad 
in his sympathies, generous in his nature, unfailing in his 
good humor, " with malice toward none and charity for 
all," he was never known to turn a deaf ear to the cries of 
distress. Often have I seen him retrace his steps to dis- 
pense charity to some blind or crippled mendicant whom 
he happened to pass on the street. He was never happier 
than when doing some kindly, gracious act. He loved his 
fellow man deeply, sincerely, and that love found expres- 
sion in the most thoughtful consideration for all who 



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MiiMoniAL Addresses: Senator Broussard 

came in contact with him. Fearless and independent, 
courteous and cultured, conscientious and constructive, 
eloquent and logical, Bob Broussard possessed all of the 
elements of the ideal legislator. It is no wonder that he 
has left the impress of his strong and virile personalitj' 
upon the historj' of his day and generation, and in the 
memorj' of his manj' noble deeds, nobly done, he has 
reared for himself a monument that will endure so long 
as sentiment abides in the hearts of men. 



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Address of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan 

Mr. Speaker : We have met to-day to say our last official 
word of appreciation of our friend Senator Robert F. 
Broussard, whom so many of us remember as a long- 
time Member of the House. When the Sixty-fifth Con- 
gress assembled more than one-third of the Senate roll 
was composed of former Members of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. There were John H. Bankhead and Oscar W. 
Underwood, of Alabama; Marcus A. Smith, of Arizona; 
Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas; John F. Shafrotli, of 
Colorado; Frank B. Brandegee, of Connecticut; Thomas 
W. Hardwick, of Georgia; James Hamilton Lewis, of 
Illinois; James E. Watson, of Indiana; Charles Curtis, of 
Kansas; Ollie M. James, of Kentucky; Joseph E. Ransdell 
and Robert F. Broussard, of Louisiana; John Walter 
Smith, of Marj-land; Henry Cabot Lodge and John W. 
Weeks, of Massachusetts; William Alden Smith and 
Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan; Knute Nelson, of Min- 
nesota; John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; William J. 
Stone, of Missouri; Gilbert M. Hitchcock and George W. 
Norris, of Nebraska; Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada; 
Jacob H. Gallingcr, of New Hampshire; William Hughes, 
of New Jersey, William M. Calder, of New York; Asle" J. 
Gronna, of South Dakota; Kenneth McKellar, of Tennes- 
see; Morris Sheppard, of Texas; William H. King, of Utah; 
Claude A. Swanson, of Virginia; Wesley L.Jones and Miles 
Poindexter, of Washington; Nathan Goflf and Howard 
Sutherland, of West Virginia; and Robert M. La Follette, 
of Wisconsin. 

Of the long list of our former colleagues in the House 
Senators James of Kentucky, Broussard of Louisiana, 

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Mkmokiai, Addresses: Senator Broissard 

Stone of Missouri, Newlands of Nevada, Gallinger of New 
Hampshire, and Hughes of New Jersey have passed away 
within two years, a remarkable liarvest of the reaper 
wliose name is Death. Think of it! Of 37 ex-Members of 
the House who were Members of the Senate in December, 
1917, six have died, or one in every six, a mortality more 
than ten times greater than that of our troops in war! 
Their going makes us exclaim, as Warren Hastings ex- 
claimed when he heard of the death of his opponent in a 
political campaign, "What shadows we are, and what 
shadows we pursue ! " It makes us remember that — 

The glories of our birth and state 

Are shadows, not substantial things. 

There is no armour against fate, 

Death lays his icy hand on kings. 

Scepter and crown must tumble down. 

And in the earth be equal made 

With the poor humble scythe and spade. 

Mr. Broussard had passed nearly half his life in the 
city of Washington. He was educated at Georgetown 
Universitj', over beyond Rock Creek, and in his college 
days looked daily across from those commanding heights 
tliat overlook the Potomac to the tall Dome of this great 
Capitol. How little could he foresee tliat he would spend 
more than 20 years beneath this Dome. Going home to 
Louisiana from Georgetown he studied law at Tulane 
University at New Orleans. Then practiced law at his 
home in New Iberia, and almost immediately was chosen 
prosecuting attorney, which position he resigned to come 
to the House of Representatives. In this respect he fol- 
lowed the course that so many other men have taken. A 
successful representative of the people in the courts of his 
home community often has many of the qualities that 
make him a successful Representative in this House. And 
Mr. Broussard had these qualities. He loved to be among 



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Address of Mr. Fordney. of MicmciAN 

the folks about him. He could have said truthfully with 
Kipling — 

For as they come and as they go, 
Whatever their degree, 
The people, Lord, Thy people. 
Are good enough for me. 

It was no pretense that made him the genial companion 
of all those about him. He understood them, and so they 
were drawn to him. 

He had other qualities that made him distinguished as 
a legislator. Though a Democrat, he was gi'eat enough 
to put the welfare of his people above his party. All 
who were here in the Sixty-third Congress will remember 
his gallant fight for the industries of his State when the 
Underwood tariff bill was under consideration. I will 
not stop to recall the details of that contest; but the stand 
made by Mr. Brouss.\rd against party opposition displayed 
courage and patriotism of the highest type. 

Though a fluent and convincing speaker, Mr. Brous- 
SARD did not often take the floor, and never unless he had 
something worth while to saj'. He did not expand the 
Record much, but everj' session he was with us in either 
end of the Capitol he expanded the list of his friends and 
admirers. He is with us no more, but he is the sort of 
man who makes us think more kindly of the world be- 
yond the grave, because he is the sort of man whom we 
want to meet again. When he was living on this earth 
and we were about to go to New Orleans that lovely 
southern metropolis was more desirable if we knew that 
Bob Broussard would be there to welcome us. In the 
eternal summer of the celestial city, free from care, 
eternity will surely be more worth while to those who 
can look forward to a welcome and a friendly smile from 
Robert F. Broussard. 



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Address of Mr. Sanders, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: Bob Broussard and I were born and re- 
sided in adjoining counties. We knew each other prac- 
ticallj' all our lives. We both entered politics together in 
the memorable campaign of 1892, he being elected district 
attorney of his district and I being elected a member of 
the Louisiana House of Representatives, both running and 
both winning on the antilottcry Democratic ticket. 

In the many campaigns that Mr. Broussard had in the 
early days when he was first elected to Congress from the 
third district we alwaj's fought side by side. In after 
years our political ambitions clashed and we fought each 
other just as frankly as we had previously fought together, 
but our personal relationship was never interfered with 
by our political differences. Politically Mr. Broussard 
and myself differed on many things and many occasions, 
but personally our relationship was always that of friends 
one to the other. 

I believe no man in Louisiana had more friends than 
Senator Robert F. Broussard. He served those friends 
according to his lights and did that which he thought was 
right. His death has left many a sorrow and many a 
wound in Louisiana. He had a large circle of friends, a 
large circle of relatives, and a family all proud of him and 
of whom he was proud. He is gone. Peace be unto him, 
and may comfort come to those who loved him. 

Mr. Dupre took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 



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Address of Mr. Rucker, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: When I came to Washington as a Mem- 
ber of this House one of the first acquaintances formed 
beyond my own delegation was with the distinguished 
gentleman from Louisiana, Robert F. Broussard. Our 
acquaintance was casual and formed in the usual way 
that such acquaintances begin, but as time passed and we 
were thrown more intimately together in the discharge 
of our respective otTicial duties and had longer and larger 
opportunities for association that acquaintance devel- 
oped into a friendship of the most ardent nature. 1 do 
not exaggerate when, speaking for myself, I confess that 
it became an affection. 

I have been much gratified and pleased at the splendid 
tributes that have been paid to both the personal and offi- 
cial life and character of my deceased friend. 1 indorse 
all that has been so beautifully said. No man within my 
memory or acquaintance with whom I have ever asso- 
ciated was broader in his conception of the right or 
braver in his determination to do the right than Bob 
Broussard — true, generous, and confiding, alwaj's and 
under all circumstances a gentleman of the most pro- 
nounced type. Wlien the sad message was flashed to 
Washington announcing the death of Senator Broussard 
my tears mingled with the tears of his loved ones. I 
realized that the Nation had lost one of its wisest and 
best legislators, the State of Louisiana one of her loftiest, 
noblest, and truest citizens, the wife a kind, affectionate, 
and loving husband, and I had lost one of my dearest 
friends. 

Mr. Speaker, I can not add to this splendid eulogj^ con- 
tained in the New Iberia Enterprise of April 20, 1918, 



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a paper published in the city where Senator Broussard 
lived and died: 

Our Most Popular Statesman Laid to Rest — The People's 
Friend Mourned by the Whole State. 

Last Tuesday New Iberia had a daj' of deep, intense mourn- 
ing and sorrow connected with the interment of Iberia's most 
distinguished son, United States Senator Robert F. Broussard, 
linown in terms of universal love and admiration as "Couzan 
Bob." 

Nature seemed to have carved from the calendar the most 
beautiful day of the month and fused it with the very heart 
throbs of his numberless friends and devotees. The majestic 
oak in front of the courthouse, under which he lay in state, 
with its graceful branches and protecting foliage, lent a somber- 
ness, a deep-felt solemnity, mellowed in tone and tinged by the 
ever-evasive, eluding sun's rays, to the close of his life and 
career, a typical epic of completed work and silenced loyalty. 

The mute evidence of tears and anguish, the unuttered sym- 
pathy and worship of the moving mass of humanity attending 
the obsequies, is the finest, most imperishable monument laid at 
his bier. Friend and foe in handclasp felt the sting of the 
silence of death. The yawning grave about to absorb his most 
precious mortal remains deepened the unfathomable mystery 
which cancels brilliancy of mind, loyalty of heart, warmth of 
friendship, of lofty service of a staunch and stern citizenship, 
exacted the inexorable tribute of reverence and homage. No 
public man on the stage of Louisiana's political life has ever 
dominated and controlled as completely as our departed friend 
Bob, the friendship, the love of his fellow citizens. The per- 
sonal magnetism will be the phenomena of the record of his 
deeds. In all his varied and multitudinous activities — political, 
social, and fraternal — the same element of humane feelings 
characterized the results. He put man and life above the eco- 
nomic materialism v>'hich plays so large a part and is such a 
prominent feature in our American life and consciousness. It 
is this recognition of the successes and failures, the hardships 
and privations, the punishments and rewards of the common 
man of the crowd, the struggling mass of darkness and adver- 
sity, the achievements and triumphs of those creators of wealth 
and opportunities of the industrial realm of the State that wove 

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Address of Mr. Rucker, of Missouri 

the laurel wreaths, the crowns of service, placed upon his brow 
of useful, honorable career. 

Leading the simple life, wanting no extraordinary luxuries 
and improvised extravagances, he became an apostle of work 
and industry without the poison of pride and the power of 
glory; the best weapon and equipment in his battles and suc- 
cesses were his spirit of natural humility and modesty. 

He felt nature to be the best instructor, with no shams and 
pretensions, with no false ideas or artificial attitudes. Under 
stress, in storm and tempest, he followed the rigid rules of his 
manhood and conscience. He believed thoroughly in the honesty 
and integrity of the silent, spiritual voice in human nature. 
He worshiped the truth and the limitation of man's ability and 
intellectual capacity. He hated shadows and gave considera- 
tion to substance. Illusions appeared as the germs of poison 
in his great solemn enterprises. His whole public career, his 
congressional history, his senatorial services reflect this per- 
sonality. Everything credited to his victories during the pas- 
sions and prejudices of political campaigns, every trophy brought 
back from any contest where right and loyalty were being as- 
sailed and menaced, breathes in a large degree the soul of his 
unimpeachable, unspotted service. We have many Creoles and 
Acadians in the public life in the State of Louisiana, but none, 
so far, has yet, in public estimation and dispassionate judgment 
and unbiased mind, reached the height of popularity which must 
be accredited to the place in the niche of fame occupied by 
mourned Bob Broussard. 

Words can never heal the wounds and cure the scars in- 
flicted by the Grim Reaper. Those pains have to be borne by 
saint and sinner alike. The laws of nature provide places for 
shadow and sunshine. Each is necessary to the enfoldment of 
creation. In our humble capacity, in the feeble way tendered to 
mankind by speech and signs and tokens, we offer our most 
heartfelt sympathies and sincerest condolences to the grief- 
stricken widow and immediate relatives. 

An elaborate funeral program was insisted upon by the public 
and heartily responded to by the fraternal societies of which he 
was a long and valuable member. The Pythians, the Elks, and 
the Masons spared no effort and labor to make the last tribute 
and respect one of the brightest pages and chapters of his his- 
tory. His life-long and intimate friend, Mr. Louis A. Walet, 

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under the strong impulse of friendship and love, delivered a 
most eloquent funeral oration that is very seldom listened to and 
privileged to be heard. United States Senator Vardaman, of 
Mississippi, one of his colleagues in the United States Senate, de- 
livered, in one of the noblest and most inspiring eflForts, a eulogy 
of which any poet or painter of word pictures could be eminently 
proud. Many tears from men and women in the audience were 
seen to furtively roll down the cheeks as a manifestation of that 
sacred thrill which love and admiration generates. This com- 
pleted the public ceremonies and started tlie march of tlie funeral 
cortege to the Catholic graveyard where his remains were tem- 
porarily laid at rest in the tomb of Mr. Felix Patout. 

In spite of liie presence of the sepulcher and the lugubrious 
atmosphere, a bright light, the sunshine of hope, pierced the pall 
of distress of his widow and relatives and friends when another 
of his former colleagues in Congress, Hon. William A. Roden- 
berg, of Illinois, delivered the last and most touching panegyric 
human being ever listened to. With a sincerity and deep emotion 
engraved on every word spoken and sentence delivered, his deep 
emotion and overwhelming fraternalisra overwhelmed all within 
the reach of his voice. Love, friendship, and charity, fraternity 
and equality, were the reward which went down to the grave 
into eternity. Memory will forever treasure and refresh with 
the spirit of emulation and recognition of the heart's value and 
the soul's role in nature's days of busy life the crowded record 
of the career of Bob Broissard. 

The munificence and luxuriance of the floral decorations 
were reminiscent of the extensive ramifications, the effect his 
public life had upon the political and industrial development 
of the State of Louisiana. Those were symbols of the fruit 
of the tree of life, the utility of man's service, a health and 
the proper investment of man's faculties. Each garland repre- 
sented every drop of his life dedicated to the duties he assumed 
and the work he accomplished. Upon tliat altar of self-sacrifice 
and inspiring patriotism rests a finished temple erected to his 
life and memory. 

The pallbearers were his two brothers, Hon. Edwin S. Brous- 
sard, Albert Broussard; Richard P. Sleekier and Preston Guil- 
beau, brothers-in-law; a cousin, Silvio Broussard; and intimate 
friends, Dr. George J. Sabatier, William H. Price, and Van 
Beary. 



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Address of Mk. Bicker, of Missouri 

Among the distinguished senatorial committee here to attend 
the obsequies were Senators James K. Vardaman, of Mississippi; 
Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma; Henry L. Myers, of Montana; 
William H. Thompson, of Kansas; William F. Kirby, of Arkansas; 
Joseph E. Ransdell, of Louisiana; and Howard Sutherland, of 
West Virginia. Mr. F. J. Delahoussaye, a page in the Senate, also 
accompanied the party to New Iberia. 

The Representatives were Watkins, Dupre, Lazaro, Aswell, Wil- 
son, Sanders, and Martin, of Louisiana, and Rucker, of Missouri. 
Representatives Estopinal, of Louisiana, and Langley, of Ken- 
tucky, who were also named on the committee, were unable to 
serve. The party was in charge of W. D. Meng, Assistant Ser- 
geant at Arms of the Senate, and included, besides the legisla- 
tive Members, George W. Hess, superintendent of the United 
States Botanical Gardens and a close friend of the dead Senator. 

Aside from the members of the two congressional committees. 
Gov. Pleasant, and others, among the prominent mourners were 
Federal Judge George Whitfield Jack and John C. Pugh, of Shreve- 
port; Judge Winston Overton, of Lake Charles; Senator Bertrand 
Weil, of Alexandria; Senator A. 0. Boyer, of Avoyelles; Col. W. 
M. Price, of Thibodaux; J. Martin Hamley, of Lake Providence; 
Lieut. Gov. Fernand Mouton; Secretary of State James J. Bailey; 
State Auditor Paul Capdcvielle; Fred J. Grace, registrar of the 
State land office; Attorney General A. C. Coco; W. B. Lee, of 
Shreveport; R. X. Sims, State bank examiner; Numa Montel, of 
Lafayette; H. R. Speed, of Monroe; John H. Overton, of Assump- 
tion; Dudley L. Guilbeau, of Opelousas; Commissioner of Agri- 
culture Wilson; and State Treasurer Henry Hunsicker. 

In the New Orleans party were included State Food Adminis- 
trator John M. Parker; Rene F". Clcrc, president of the board of 
trade; Richard O. Otero; R. E. O'Rourke; James Thompson, of 
The Item; Maj. A. D. Stewart; and Senator G. J. Labarre. 

Hundreds of telegrams of condolence poured in, among them 
one from President Wilson, which was as follows: 

" Washington, D. C, April Jii, 1918. 
" Mrs. R. F. Broussard, 

\ew Iberia, La.: 
" May I not express my profound sympathy with you in the 
death of your husband. 

" WooDROw Wilson." 



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The R. V. Bhoussaiu) Memorial Association was organized. here. 
The leaders of the movement are the many friends of the late 
Senator, who were in attendance at his funeral. The associ- 
ation is headed by Col. W. H. Price, of Lafourche, president, and 
Henry B. Pruden, of Covington, secretary. Every bank in the 
State is autliorized to receive donations and enter tliem to the 
account of the association. Further information will be given 
by Col. W. H. Price, of Thibodaux, or W. H. Pruden, of Coving- 
ton. The object of the R. F. Broussard Memorial Association is 
to raise funds to finance the erection of a suitable monument to 
the memory of Iberia's beloved son. 

Mr. Broussard was a loyal supporter of Woodrow Wilson for 
the presidential nomination in 1912, and it was largely through 
his influence that the vote of Louisiana at the Baltimore con- 
vention in 1912 was split between Wilson and Clark, and on de- 
ciding ballots swung to Wilson. 

Mr. Broussard enjoyed the distinction of being reelected to 
the House of Representatives after he was elected United States 
Senator by the legislature. His term as Senator did not begin 
until March 4, 1915, and in 1912 he was reelected to another two- 
year term in the House, serving in that body until he took his 
seat in the Senate. 



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Address of Mr. Watkins, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: I served longer in the House of Repre- 
sentatives with Senator Broussard than any other Member 
from our State now in the House. He served in the House 
and the Senate together, in the various Congresses from 
the time he entered until the time of his death, over 20 
years. Gen. Myer also served for 20 years. I believe that 
Sam Robinson served 20 j'ears. Senator Ransdell has 
served more than 20 years, including his service in both 
Houses. Looking back over the various acts which Sena- 
tor Broussard performed and the various measures which 
he advocated, I can say there was no man who was ever 
more devoted to the interests of his constituents, or who 
was ever truer to his duty as a Representative, or who ever 
more properly aroused the great respect, admiration, love, 
and esteem of his constituents than Robert F. Broussard. 
When I first knew him he appeared as a boy, soon after he 
had come from tlie city of Washington, where he had at- 
tended for three years Georgetown University. He was 
then in the customhouse in the city of New Orleans, where 
he was acting as a Government oflicial. He held two dif- 
ferent positions there. The whole city of New Orleans 
was then boiling and seething and worked up to the high- 
est pitch over the question whether the Louisiana State 
Lottery should be continued in power as one of the inost 
grinding monopolies ever organized in any government, 
whether it should be allowed to continue as a corporation, 
as a business institution, or whether it should be destroyed 
by the vote of the people. 

At that time the people of the city of New Orleans, and 
to a large extent through the entire State of Louisiana, 

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were so entwined and intermingled and influenced by the 
lottery and its ramifications were such that it reached 
nearly every household. Servants in the homes would 
j)ilfer for the purpose of contributing their means to sus- 
tain this infamous, iniquitous, corrui)t gambling concern. 
Il had been instituted during the Republican regime, dur- 
ing the reconstruction period, in the State of Louisiana, 
and had so embedded itself in the public mind and in 
])ublic institutions, and had ingratiated itself so in the 
minds of the people, that it was almost impossible, even 
with the herculean effort made by the citizens of the State, 
to disorganize, disrupt, and finally overthrow it. 

I speak of this for the purpose of showing the circum- 
stances surrounding the people, the enormous amount of 
money at the command of the lottery. It was openly buy- 
ing members of the legislature, it being known at the time 
as high as $50,000 was paid for the vote of a member of 
the house or a member of the senate. 

During the time of this corruption by this gambling 
institution Robert Broussard, a young man, a boy, sur- 
rounded by all these influences, stood up for the interests 
and rights of the people, the security and morality of the 
citizenship of the State of Louisiana. As referred to by 
Gov. Sanders, who has just preceded me, he and our for- 
mer governor and United States Senator Foster, in the 
same section of the State as Mr. Broussard lived, all 
worked together against the lottery. At the time the 
question was finally put to the legislature of the State of 
Louisiana the lottery amendment only lacked one vote of 
having two-thirds, one senator having died. 

Mr. Broussard was elected district attorney soon after 
he was inducted into the practice of law. His courage, 
his skill, his tact, were such as to enable him to win the 
confidence of the people to the extent thai when he be- 
came a candidate for Congress, seven years after he 



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Address of Mr. Watkins, of Louisiana 

became district attorney, at the age of 33 years, he was 
elected to Congress. 

With him the question of sugar was paramount, this 
industry of the State being the living of his people, who 
were dependent on their success in producing and market- 
ing their sugar crop, which was the staple product of the 
southern part of Louisiana. The very way that Bob 
Broi'SSard pronounced the word "sugar" was attractive. 
From the time he entered Congress up to the time of his 
death nothing was left undone that could have been done 
by him to enable them to reap the advantages of the great 
agricultural interests in his district. 

There are many things which could be said of Robert 
Broissard. Those of us who are here to-day who at- 
tended his funeral know there is no eulogj' which could 
be passed in honor of the memory of the man which 
would greater ingratiate him into the love, affection, and 
esteem of his people. We who were there on that occa- 
sion, who saw the remains under the shade of the great 
oak trees, remember the vast concourse of people, too 
large to gather in any assembly hall. The subdued voices, 
the tearful eyes, and throbbing hearts expressed the con- 
fidence, esteem, and respect that his people had for him. 



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Address of Mr. Dickinson, ok Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: I regard it a special privilege to be given 
an opportunity to-daj' to speak a few words in memorj- 
of Robert F. BRorssARo, who served many jears as a 
distinguished Representative in this great body, and who 
afterwards represented with honor his great State in 
the Senate. 

Shortly after coming to Congress I became acquainted 
with Senator Broussard, then a Member of the House, 
and that acquaintance ripened into a friendship deepl}"^ 
appreciated by me. 

At all times courteous and gentlemanly, he won the 
respect and affection of all with whom he came in con- 
tact. He possessed a most delightful and attractive per- 
sonality, which charmed those with whom he associated. 
Knowing him as I learned to know him, it was easily un- 
derstood why an appreciative constituencj' loved to honor 
him as a Representative in public life. 

He had in him all the elements that tended to make 
a successful career, and those who knew him well in his 
long and courageous public service to his State and Nation 
have paid eloquent and deserved tribute to his worth and 
character. He had the courage of his convictions, and 
with marked ability did he sustain himself in the many 
contests that characterized his public life. 

He entered upon his official career early in life and 
for nearly a quarter of a century he was in the limelight 
of public opinion. He met with singular ability every 
test that determined his fitness for the positions of trust 
that he filled with such distinguished honor. 

He ended his long and brilliant career in the very prime 
of bis manhood. 

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Address of Mr. Dickinson, of Missouri 

My relations to him were those of a personal friend. 
His courtesies and friendship were appreciated by inc. 
The recollection of his many virtues will be a sweet 
memory as long as I shall live. 

There was a charm about him that few men possessed, 
and it was a delight to be with him. I learned early to 
love him and shall always be glad that I knew and had 
the friendship of Robert F. Broussard. 



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Address of Mr. Dupre, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: Robert Foligny Broussard was in his 
fifty-fourth year when death claimed him. Almost half 
of his entire life — practically all of his adult life— was 
spent in the city of Washington, first as a student of 
Georgetown University, then as a Member of this body for 
18 years, and finally as a Senator of the United States, 
which exalted office he was filling at the time of his death. 
He had accordingly come to be a familiar figure in the 
Nation's Capital, and counted among the official and resi- 
dent and visiting population of the District of Columbia a 
large number of warm personal friends. News of his de- 
mise, therefore, was received here with the greatest regret 
and "with manifestations of deepest sympathy. How 
widespread was the grief in the State of Louisiana has 
already been emphasized. No one who witnessed it will 
soon forget the immense concourse from all walks of life 
and from every portion of the State that gathered in his 
home city of New Iberia last April to pay him the final 
tribute of sorrow and respect. The scene at the tomb was 
memorable and formed a setting worthy of the notable 
address by the talented and eloquent gentleman from 
Illinois [Mr. Rodenberg], who had been the dead Sena- 
tor's intimate friend for many years. 

Mr. Broussard had a striking and outstanding person- 
ality. 

Physically he was handsome of countenance, graceful 
and easy of carriage, and strong of body. His naturally 
robust constitution had been developed by his love of out 
of doors, for he was devoted to life in the open. He loved 
nature and all growing things — trees and plants and flow- 
ers. One rarely saw him without a boutonniere in his lapel. 

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He liked all animals, especially horses and dogs, and rev- 
eled in the pastimes with which the latter are associated. 
He was an ardent devotee of the chase and a crack shot. 
He enjoyed racing — the "sport of kings "; was an excel- 
lent judge of horse flesh, and was himself a skilled eques- 
trian. 

Mentally he was richly endowed. He had a quick and 
alert mind, and his powers of absorption and assimilation 
were particularly keen. Knowing but little of a subject, he 
could, after hearing others explain it, grasp the salient 
points and present the proposition as his very own. He 
had a ready and picturesque flow of language, a pleasing 
voice, and a graceful delivery, either in the forum or on 
the hustings. 

Socially he was charming. He was naturally compan- 
ionable. He liked people and liked to mingle with them. 
One rarely saw him alone. He was an inimitable racon- 
teur, and his fund of clever and witty stories was inex- 
haustible. He was most adaptable, equally at home in 
the club, in the drawing room, or with the man on the 
street. 

Such qualities combined in one man were naturally cal- 
culated to draw his fellow men to his support, and it is 
only truth to tell that his individual following was as 
large as, if not larger than, any one public man that the 
State of Louisiana has known in many a decade. Thou- 
sands followed his personal and political fortunes blindly 
and unquestioningly. There was in him something that 
in other days the "Mill Boy of the Slashes" had, that 
the" Plumed Knight of Maine " possessed, and that, in our 
own time, no one would deny to the " Great Rough Rider," 
too early dead; but, unlike them, he never suffered defeat 
before the people in his near 30 years of public service. 

" Boi! " Broissard was of Acadian descent, springing 
from that sturdy stock whose persecutions and wander- 



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ings, while saddening the pages of history, have enriched 
the literature of all times. He was intensely proud of that 
fact, as well he might, and it made him all the more pro- 
foundly attached and loyal to that Louisiana where this 
race of people finally found an end to its rovings and 
tribulations — that Louisiana whose civilization has been 
leavened and broadened by its advent into its confines. 
For the Acadians brought with them, and ever since their 
descendants have practiced, the simple, homely virtues 
of truth and courage and honor and hospitality. Simple 
virtues, Mr. Speaker, but fundamental qualities, w-ithout 
which no man or people can or do count in the ultimate. 
There, in that Acadian country, in its heart, mayhap 
within sight of the very oak that was to have been the 
trysting place of the lovers — Gabriel and Evangeline — on 
the banks of the historic Teche, with its slowly moving 
waters to sing his requiem until time shall be no more, he 
sleeps. God give him eternal rest. 



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Address of Mr. Aswell, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: Senator Robert F. Broussard was a char- 
acter most extraordinary. Highly educated and speaking 
two languages with unsurpassed fluency, he possessed a 
personal charm that was appealing and overpowering. A 
keen perception of people and conditions, added to an 
alert intellect and a ready fluency of speech, easily made 
him a forceful character at home and in Washington. At 
the time of his death he was the most popular man per- 
sonally in the public life of Louisiana. 

Gracious in manner, trained and skillful in debate, 
courageous, active, and vigorous in any cause he espoused, 
he won the admiration of men everywhere. His people 
loved him and signally honored him at every opportunity. 

He is mourned to-day in Louisiana as few men have 
been mourned. Expressing sincere sympathy to the be- 
reaved family and paying tribute to his memorj' in this 
hour of sorrow, I give this my earnest expression of grief 
in the loss to our State and Nation of a serviceable citi- 
zen whose distinguished ability was known and recog- 
nized throughout the country. 



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Address of Mr. Clark, or Florida 

Mr. Speaker: When I tame to the House as a new Mem- 
ber, 14 years ago, one ol' the first Members with whom I 
became closely associated was our departed friend. Bob 
Broussard, of Louisiana. For six years he and I sat side 
by side, just about where I now stand, when the desks 
were in the House. I learned to know him intimately and 
well. I learned not only to have an affection for him as 
a friend but a verj' great admiration, which really 
ripened into love for the man and his many sterling quali- 
ties. Bon Broi'ssard could ngt do a mean or small thing. 
He was generosity itself; he was the very soul of honor; 
and he was one of the most human of men it has ever been 
my pleasure to know. When he died humanity lost a 
friend. All of us who knew him here felt that we had 
lost an able, faithful, conservative legislator; a loyal, pa- 
triotic public servant, and a staunch, unselfish, devoted 
friend. 

Mr. Speaker, it is seldom that we are privileged to meet 
a man in whom so many of the virtues are blended as 
there were in our late associate. As I say, I have been 
here some 14 years. Many men with whom I have served 
in this great body have crossed over the river and are 
I'esting under the shade of the trees since 1 first entered 
this Chamber as a Member. Many of them have gone out 
from among us and have solved the great mystery. Not- 
withstanding what may be said about the House of Bepre- 
sentatives, it is at last the one great legislative body on 
this earth, and the men who come here are distinctly 
representative of the best that there is in the people who 
send them. Bob Broussard represented to a remarkable 
degree the highly intelligent, patriotic, lovable people of 

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Address of Mr. Clark, of Florida 



the State of Louisiana. He was in a large measure their 
idol, particularly the people in his immediate vicinity, who 
had known him all of his life. As has just been stated by 
one of his colleagues, he never met with defeat in a polit- 
ical contest. Knowing him as I did, it would be impossi- 
ble to conceive how such a man could be defeated at the 
hands of his people. 

We shall no more be greeted in this historic Hall by his 
ever-present smile; no more shall we here receive his 
cordial handclasp and look upon his face, which always 
beamed witli brotherlj' love for his fellows; but let us 
fervently hope that in the great beyond whither we are 
all traveling we may again meet and commune with our 
beloved comrade and friend who has only preceded us to 
that beautiful land where there is no more of pain, of 
suffering, of separation, and of death. May the Great 
Father in His own good time grant unto us a reunion with 
our genial and lovable friend. Bob Broussard, in " that 
mansion not made with hands eternal in the heavens." 



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Address of Mr. Lazaro, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: We ai-e met to-day to pay tribute to 
the memory of one of Louisiana's greatest men, Senator 
Robert F. Broussard. 

As a member of the committee who went upon that sad 
journey when the remains of Senator Broussard were 
consigned to their last resting place in the city of New 
Iberia, La., I could not help but be impressed by the 
solemn ceremony when his body was laid to rest, and to 
me it was apparent that the people of Louisiana realized 
that in mourning the loss of Senator Broussard they were 
mourning the loss of one of Louisiana's finest men, truest 
citizens, and ablest statesmen. 

No public man on the stage of Louisiana's political life 
has ever controlled as completely as did Robert Broussard 
the friendship and love of his fellow citizens. He never 
failed a friend and never forgot a favor. His personal 
magnetism will ever remain the crown of his success in 
public life. In all his activities, political as well as social, 
the results are characterized by the same element of hu- 
mane feelings. He put men and life above the economic 
materialism which to-day plays so large a part in Ameri- 
can life and consciousness. He led the simple life, and 
he represented his people without the poison of pride or 
the power of glory. His best weapon in his political bat- 
tles and successes was his spirit of natural humility and 
modestj'. He felt nature to be the best instructor in life, 
and he looked with contempt upon shams and pretensions. 
Under political storm and stress he followed the rules of 
his manhood and always stood bj' the dictates of his con- 
sciousness. He loved the truth; he hated shadows; he 
always adhered to substances. His whole public career 

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Address of Mr. L,\zaro, of Louisiana 

in the House and Senate of the United States reflects his 
personality. His private life was clean, lovable, and 
honorable. 

Robert F. Broussard will go down in the history of his 
Nation and his State as one of the strongest, one of the 
most admired, and one of the best loved men who has ever 
served a people. 



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Address of Mr. Wilson, of Louisiana 

Mr. Speaker: I shall make no attempt to recite in detail 
the facts connected with and making up the interesting 
and eventful life historj' of our deceased friend and col- 
league for whom these services are held; one whom we all 
delighted to honor while living, and now in sadness and 
reverence pay deserved trihute to his memory and in 
some meager way express our appreciation for his distin- 
guished services to our State and country. 

Senator Robert F. Broussard was known, admired, and 
loved by Louisianians everywhere, and the immeasurable 
loss to our State and its people occasioned by his untimely 
death has been most keenly felt in every section and in 
each locality. 

Just as he had served effectively and unselfishly, with 
marked ability and exalted patriotism, the people and in- 
terests of his native State, guarding with watchful care 
and working with untiring encrgj' for their advancement 
and development, so he was held in the universal esteem 
and affectionate confidence of all. 

For maiiy years Bob Broussard was in the foremost 
rank of the men first in the affairs in Louisiana, and dur- 
ing his service in Congress had attained a standing and 
reputation that was national. 

Independent, fearless, and aggressive, with a fine grasp 
of public questions, embodying the high ideals that ap- 
peal instantly to our people, ready of speech and with a 
charming personality, he soon rallied to every cause he 
championed a host of supporters. He was throughout 
his public career always an important factor in every 
great issue pertaining to the welfare of the State. 

No man who has been a Member of this House ever had 
a stronger hold on the people of his congressional district. 

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For 18 years he was continuously returned practically 
without opposition and apparently without any effort on 
his part except faithful discharge of duty. 

A variety of explanations have been given to account 
for his unbounded popularity in the third Louisiana dis- 
trict and his continued and uninterrupted political su- 
premacy there, one among which has become a tradition 
throughout the State and has received wide publicity else- 
where. This was that his kinsmen were so numerous, tak- 
ing in all degrees of cousins, that they held at least a 
balance of power in the district, and all being loyal and 
devoted to " Couzan Bob " and proud of his distinction, 
took care that no one should interfere with his political 
interests or fortunes. If this interesting story were true, 
no higher tribute could be paid to the memory of any 
man. 

I feci, however, that the true explanation is found in 
Senator Broussard's own conception and appreciation of 
the function, duty, and obligations of a Representative in 
Congress. To use his own words, I quote : 

The Congressman, and I use the word in its true sense, is but 
the agent of the people or State which sends him liere. The 
principle, in so far as a Member of the House is concerned, is 
that those who elect that Member have the right to instruct him 
in regard to their interests, and the Representative has absohitely 
no right to act adversely to such interests. 

The will of his constituents as expressed to him in re- 
spect to their interests and their welfare was supreme 
authority and binding upon him, and he lived religiously 
up to this doctrine both in the letter and the spirit. 

He worked assiduously and fought with determination 
for the people and the interests of his congressional dis- 
trict, the source of his commission and authority. No 
amount or character of criticism could swerve him from 
this course. Every position of honor or preferment com- 



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ing with any element inconsistent with what he conceived 
to be his duty to them was brushed aside. 

So, in my humble judgment, his faithfulness and devo- 
tion to the people and interests of the district which he 
represented, coupled with his fine abilitj' to achieve re- 
sults for them, formed the true basis for his great popu- 
larity and political success in Louisiana and served to 
give him the national prominence which enabled him to 
more effectively extend his career of usefulness to the 
needs of his entire State and beyond to the Nation. 

While many of his party associates in Louisiana and at 
Washington differed with him as to some matters of 
party policy and in respect to what they held to be cardi- 
nal party principles, contending that the results which he 
sought could best be obtained by other methods than 
those which he felt should guide his course, yet no one 
ever doubted or questioned the sincerity of his purpose, 
the purity of his motives, or the high quality of his patri- 
otism. 

When he sought the Senatorship he took scrupulous 
care that his position upon all public questions in rela- 
tion to which he might be called upon to act should be 
frankly stated and known to all the people of the State. 

There can be no surer or more permanent foundation 
for enduring fame than that which is established by and 
results from a record of faithful public service, true to 
promise and to principle, such as characterized the life 
and public record of Robert F. Broussard. 

Statesman, yet friend to truth! Of soul sincere, 

In action faithful, and in lienor clear; 

Who broke no promise, served no private end * * * 



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Address of Mr. Estopinal, of Louisiana 

Mr. Dupr£. Mr. Speaker, my colleague [Mr. Estopinal] 
is unavoidably absent to-day on account of illness. He 
had prepared some remarks appropriate to this occasion 
which he sent to me, and I ask unanimous consent that 
they may be read from the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker pro tempore. Witliout objection, the Clerk 
will read. 

There was no objection, and the Clerk read as follows : 

Mr. Estopinal. Mr. Speaker, after serving 18 years in 
this body and 3 years in the other branch of the Congress 
of the United States, Robert F. Broussard died at the early 
age of 53. This memorial service under these circum- 
stances carries an added note of sorrow, for experience 
and the expanded powers of a remarkably fertile mind 
had equipped Robert F. Broussard for a still larger degree 
of usefulness to his country and his State in tlie years 
which, by nature's usual rule, should follow. 

The details of the life and public services of our de- 
parted friend and colleague have been given so fully and 
with such sympathetic recognition in the Senate, and here 
to-daj', that I will confine mj'self to briefly recalling one 
happy trait which he possessed to a verj' unusual degree — 
an unaffected democracy of manner and a simple, natu- 
ral, and companionable relation with all people. 

It is a rather rare man who is not sobered into reserve 
and formality of manner to some degree by elevation 
to high office, with its weight of cares and the engross- 
ment of service on the one hand, and constant and sub- 
tle deferences which tend to feed his vanity and enlarge 
his sense of self-importance on the other. And more 
than often these influences develop that indefinable and 

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really unnatural mien which is generally mistenned 
dignity. Robert F. Broussard was one of these rare men. 
He was " Bob " when he began his official career, thus 
he remained throughout its lengthening years of official 
honors, and it was " Bob " who was affectionately and 
tearfully laid to rest in the town in which he was born 
and raised. His idea of dignity w^as work well performed 
and friends made, retained, and unaffectedly enjoyed. 

Mr. Speakei", friends are discriminating — even old 
friends are, perhaps as much as new ones — and it takes 
solid qualities, real, effective work and accomplishments 
to satisfy them. These give grace, savor, and power to 
natural manner. Robert F. Broussard measured up to 
the full expectations of those who put him here and kept 
him here. He was an able and faithful Representative 
and Senator. 



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Address of Mr. Wingo, of Arkansas 

Mr. Speaker: Senator Brolssard was one of those men 
whose strong personality, unflinching courage, and great 
ability commanded the respect even of those who differed 
with him. But these qualities not only commanded the 
respect of those who differed with him, but they also in- 
voked from his supporters and friends a zealous attach- 
ment that was remarkable. 

In a discussion of the character and qualities of Sena- 
tor Broussard my good friend, the gentleman from Louisi- 
ana, Judge Martin, handed me an article by Jules Drey- 
fus, of New Iberia, La., that expressed in such a fine way 
the feelings of the people of that great State that I shall 
confine my tribute to printing, as an extension of my re- 
marks, this tribute from a lifelong friend : 

Robert F. Broussard 

The demise of United States Senator Robert F. Broussard 
marked a broad, dark, somber swath across the political horizon 
of I^ouisiana. 

He was of unique personality and belonged to a class of his 
own. From a close survey of the political situation, his succes- 
sor will fill the vacated Senatorship, but not replace the sym- 
pathy, the sincerity, the alTection with which his labor has been 
received and accepted by his constituents. 

That silent, njute bond of love and worship his strenuous 
work excited during his last days at Washington among his 
numberless friends and foes will illumine the valley of the dark 
shadows. His career was meteoric. Some of his political battles 
had a Napoleonic sweep. 

The struggle for the United States Senatorship against en- 
trenched officialdom reflected a high order of political skill and 
strategy. A wizard on the stage of the State's public life, his 
uncanny, mysterious power of hypnotism made him the patron 
saint of the largest individual following ever recorded. His en- 
trance into public life, especially the beginning of his congres- 
sional career, was dramatic in the extreme, if not highly spec- 

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tacular in some respects. Nominated by one-half vote majority 
at Morgan City, he at once became a fixed, honored institution in 
the State's political activities. He weathered all storms and 
turmoil with unflinching courage and conquered opposition, some- 
times defamation and calumny, with such lofty magnanimity 
that left no scars, no stings. The charm of his manhood, the 
nobility of a kind, fraternal nature, the spirit of devotion to 
friends, and the recognition of the rights and privileges of 
political independence were assets no political expediency and 
necessity could ever threaten or destroy. 

At Washington he prepared with dogged tenacity to render 
the yeoman service which posterity and the future historian will 
recognize as the masterpiece of his life's work. Stalwart in his 
views on protection, no tariff bill during his term of office at the 
Capital was ever formulated and submitted to Congress for rati- 
fication but bore the imprint of his views and the wisdom of his 
studies and experience. Having mastered, through close scrutiny 
and research, the intricate problems of the vexatious sugar ques- 
tions, he became encyclopedic on the subject and a tower of 
strength during the precarious, menacing periods as blows and 
assaults were directed against the State's sugar industry. During 
all these times of stress, uncertainty, and vicissitudes his cham- 
pionship of .sugar protection assumed a fervor, a dedication of 
service which culminated in his political canonization by the 
Democracy of the third district. Changes in Federal administra- 
tions, tampering with tariff bills, exploitations of the vagaries 
of comic economic principles, involving the annihilation or 
paralyzation of the sugar industry, never changed his stand, his 
position. Even at the risk of political ostracism, party expul- 
sion, and savage criticism of a whole small world of bureau- 
crats, he stood as the Rock of .-\ges, the invincible defender on 
the 'ramparts, fighting libel, repelling economic fetiches, and 
anarchy. In the United Slates Senate, as well as the House of 
Congress, he was recognized as a fearless warrior for the rights, 
the security, the protection of every sugar planter, of every 
other industry of the State. He looked upon protection of Ameri- 
can labor and manufactures through the eyes of a sire, a prophet. 
He had no hesitation in the choice of economic policies. He 
stood unfettered, from parly tradition, upon the broad, compre- 
hensive platform which proclaimed the industrial independ- 
ence, the self-sufficiency, the development of the Nation and its 

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Address of Mr. Wingo, of Arkansas 

resources. He was no visionary and felt contempt and scorn for 
the impracticable panaceas projected on the political screen by 
some misguided, sometimes misled, overzealous leader of the na- 
tional Democratic organization. The consistency of his immov- 
able stand during his participation in the construction and quad- 
rennial revision of our tariff laws have earned the permanent, 
deep love, sympathy, and respect of those who looked to him 
for a solution of that ever-present menace. It has the elements 
of the fire of fanaticism, the living zeal, the quivering fervor of 
the crusader. But it is as " Couzan Bob," " le roi des Cadiens," 
" king of the Cajans," that future folklore will remember him, 
that legend will weave the laurel crown of sanctity. He has, 
with his own heart, his own lifeblood, created an imperishable 
shrine to which, for years to come, the stream of Cajan pil- 
grimage will be directed and the offer of reverence, the humble 
homage tenderly deposited. 

No man before him in Louisiana's public life had the senti- 
mental control in as absolute and astonishing a measure over the 
Creole. He seemed to possess the gift which could read, analyze, 
and absorb their scars, doubts, humility. With unerring accu- 
racy, the master touch of the prophet, he obtained the unnatural, 
the supernatural, a complete crystallization of the sorrows, the 
trials, tribulations, the hopes and ambitions of the Acadian. He 
appeared as the manifestation of their power, right, and justice, 
and the height of lofty useful citizenship to which each one 
could aspire. He transmuted traditional sullenness, hatred, and 
prejudice into a force of militant brotherhood. He was inspira- 
tion and thrill. No audience, however hostile and antagonistic, 
could long withstand the magic touch. His personal magnetism 
was phenomenal and a mystery as well as a puzzle to his political 
rivals. In debates on the hustings, in addresses on the stump, 
the spontaneous electrification of the phlegm, the apathy, the in- 
difference of the audience was instantaneous. The charm and 
the virility of his personality remained with him to the end. He 
had the art, the versatility, the agility, and nobility of mind that 
rendered his powers of mental penetration an ever-inspiring 
feature of his nature. This factor rendered, from an ethnographi- 
cal point of view, the invaluable service that made his corona- 
tion as the true apostle of Creolism inevitable. This social 
achievement, after the effective dissipation of the lingering clouds 
of distress of a simple, but kind and highly romantic people, still 



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remembering the historical privations and hardships that fea- 
tured the compulsory exodus of their forbears, will rank with 
the best work of the great moral and social leaders of our na- 
tional history and deserye the recognition of the highest authori- 
ties in sociology. Many a day will elapse before his people can 
again tender their hand of friendship to an approximation of 
what he steadfastly stood and worked for. No public figure in 
Louisiana to-day can share the exaltation of character, the glori- 
fication of principles, the sanctification of efforts which will 
mark the brightest, the most encouraging pages of a political his- 
tory replete with service and stirring with sacrifice. 

Adjournment 

The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- 
lutions heretofore adopted, the House will now stand 
adjourned until to-morrow. 

Accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m.), in pur- 
suance with the order heretofore adopted, the House ad- 
journed until to-morrow, Mondaj', January 27, 1919, at 11 
o'clock a. m. 

Tuesday, January 28, 1919. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

Senate resolution 422 

Resolved, That the Senate expresses its profound sorrow in the 
death of Hon. Robert F. Broussabd, late a Senator from the State 
of Louisiana. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the 
deceased the Senate, in pursuance of an order heretofore made, 
assembles to enable his associates to pay proper tribute to his 
high character and distinguished public services. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives, and transmit a copy thereof to 
the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

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